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MAKING SURGERY SAFER, AND RECOVERY FASTER
AND LESS PAINFUL FOR PATIENTS
Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) decreases risk and shortens post-surgical recovery time. Improved minimally invasive techniques, like laparoscopic surgery, are most effective when the tools are flexible, sophisticated, and incorporate advanced imaging techniques.
New devices, better optics and creative multimodal approaches to disease management have set the stage for the next phase of less invasive surgical therapy.
CIMIT’s Minimally Invasive Surgery progam is focused on making surgery safer and more precise, exploring the next generation of less invasive surgical therapy. Recent projects involve developing tools and procedures for Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES), which could make surgery completely free of incisions, while reducing pain and disability. Through the NOTES initiative, complex surgeries could eventually become outpatient procedures.
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Current Funded Projects |
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| PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR | INSTITUTION | PROJECT TITLE | |
| David Rattner and Chris Thompson |
Massachusetts General Hospital & Brigham and Women’s Hospital | Strategic Project on Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery | |
| Yolonda Colson | Brigham and Women’s Hospital | Clinical Prototype for Intraoperative Aerosolized Nanoparticle Drug-Delivery | |
| Klavs Jensen | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | High-Throughput Quantitative Microinjection into Individual Cells | |
| Daniel Kacher | Brigham and Women’s Hospital | Radiofrequency Identification for Tracking of Surgical Instruments in the Intra-Operative Environment | |
| William Karl | Boston University | Cardiac MDCT Artifact Reduction | |
| Ali Khademhosseini | Brigham and Women’s Hospital | Microencapsulation of Cells Within Shape-Controlled Microgels as Building Blocks for Tissue Engineered Organs | |
| Dan Kohane | Massachusetts General Hospital | Controlled Release Technology to Prevent Tracheal Stenosis | |
| Roger Laham | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Percutaneous Biopsy and Implantation Catheter Device for Autologous Myocardial Tissue Transplantation into Myocardial Infarction | |
| Audrey Marshall | Children’s Hospital Boston | Development of a Fetal Positioning Device for Use During Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous in utero Intervention | |
| Peter Masiakos | Massachusetts General Hospital | Development of an Endoscopic Fiberoptic Device and Biodegradable Scaffolds for Minimally Invasive Closure of Tracheoesophageal Fistulas | |
| Marvin Ryou | Brigham and Women’s Hospital | Magnetic Retraction for Advanced NOTES Procedures | |
| Marvin Ryou | Brigham and Women’s Hospital | Systematic Mapping of NOTES Access Sites in Human Cadavers | |
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Recent Publications by CIMIT Investigators |
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| INVESTIGATOR/AUTHOR | PUBLICATION | ARTICLE | DATE |
| Willingham, F. F., Gee, D.W., Lauwers, G., Brugge, W. R., Rattner, D. W. | Surg Endosc. (2008) 22:2117-2122 |
Natural Orifice Transesophageal Mediastinoscopy and Thoracoscopy | 2008 |
| Alam, H. B., Shults, C., Ahuja, N., Ayuste, E. C., Chen, H., Koustova, E., Sailhamer, E. A., Li, Y., Liu, B., de Moya, M., Velmahos, G. C. | Resuscitation Sep 4, 2007 |
Impact of Resuscitation Strategies on the Acetylation Status of Cardiac Histones in a Swine Model of Hemorrhage | 2007 |
| Sailhamer, E. A., Chen, Z., Ahuja, N., Velmahos, G. C., de Moya, M., Rhee, P., Shults, C., Alam, H. B. | J Am Coll Surg 204(4):642-53 | Profound Hypothermic Cardiopulmonary Bypass Facilitates Survival without a High Complication Rate in a Swine Model of Complex Vascular, Splenic, and Colon Injuries | 2007 |
| Velmahos, G. C., Spaniolas, K., Duggan, M., Alam, H. B., Tabbara, M., de Moya, M., Vosburgh, K. | J Trauma 63(2):285-8, discussion 288-90 | Abdomainal Insufflation for Control of Bleeding After Severe Splenic Injury | 2007 |
| Stahl, J.E., Goldman, J.M., Rattner, D.W., Gazelle, G.S. | J. Surg Res. | Related Articles, Links Adapting to a New System of Surgical Technologies and Perioperative Processes Among Clinicians | 2007 Jan. 31 (Epub ahead of print) |
| Ryou, M., Rattner, D., Pai, R., Thompson, C. | Surg Endosc. 12:677-80 | Evaluating an Optimal Gastric Closure Method for Trans-Gastric Surgery | 2007 |
| Pai, R., Fong, D.G., Bundga, M.E., Odze, R.D., Rattner, D.W., Thompson, C.C. | Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 64:428-34 | Transcolonic endoscopic cholesystectomy: a NOTES survival study in a porcine model. | 2006 |
| Rattner, D.W. | Surg Endosc 20:1802-8 | Innovation, Disruption and the perils of success. | 2006 |
| Rattner, D.W., Kalloo, A. | Surg Endosc. 20:329-33 | The ASGE/SAGES Working group on Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery WHITE PAPER | 2006 |
Minimally Invasive Surgery at the CIMIT Forum and Past Events |
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| EVENT | DATE | SPEAKERS | DETAIL |
| Forum: Minimally Invasive Surgery | May 27, 2008 | Ali Tavakkolizadeh, MB, BS: Harvard Medical School Dennis Fowler, MD: |
• Minimally Invasive Surgery • Single Port Laparoscopy or NOTES: A Form of Image Guided Therapy? |
| Forum: Current Therapies for BPH and the Search for Smart Engineering Solutions | Feb. 12, 2008 | Shahin Tabatabaei, MD: MGH Kevin Loughlin , MD: BWH |
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| Forum: Challenges and Opportunities in Office-Based Medicine | Oct. 9, 2007 | Keith Isaacson, MD; HMS, BWH, BWH Fred Shapiro, DO; HMS, BIDMC Beverly Philip, MD; HMS, BWH Lisa Warren, MD; MGH |
• Office-based Gynecologic Procedures |
Minimally Invasive Surgery News |
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| ARTICLE TITLE | PUBLICATION | DATE |
| A New Way to Perform Surgery | KTVU Channel 2 | Jul. 15, 2008 |
| Surgery Revolution | Philadelphia Bulletin | May 15, 2008 |
| Open Wide. No, Wider. Are we ready for an era of 'natural-orifice surgery'? | Newsweek | Apr. 14, 2008 |
| Scar-Free Surgery: In New Operation, Doctors Insert Tools Through Natural Orifices, Keeping Skin Intact | Boston Globe | Jan. 7, 2008 |
| Novel NOTES Causes Docs to Rethink Incision Decision | Boston Business Journal | Jul. 13, 2007 |
| Hype, Theories on NOTES Abound, But Where It Is All Headed Is Anyone’s Bet (PDF) | Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News | Jul. 2007 |
| A New Step in Scarless Surgery | Proto | Summer 2007 |
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