As you know, Lee Swanström has recently performed the first transgastric cholecystectomy in Portland. In your opinion, what are the advantages of NOTES over open and laparoscopic surgery?

Endoscopists look for more aggressive surgical procedures that surpass the limitations of existing endoscopic procedures. In this lecture, Dr. Hochberger presents the actual trends of NOTES.

NOTES remains one of the hottest topics in both gastrointestinal surgery and gastroenterology communities. There is now clinical data demonstrating that basic NOTES procedures in humans are feasible. We believe that at this point NOTES is ready to carefully move from the laboratory to human trials to identify where NOTES approaches might be beneficial and where they are not. In this very magistral lecture, Prof. David Rattner explains which are the unsolved questions of NOTES and what progress is made to move to standard human applications.

In this lecture, Doctor Brian Dunkin presents the different aspects of NOTES procedures when performed by gastroenterologists and when performed by surgeons. He highlights the importance of technical skill evaluation.

In this key lecture, Professor Swanström provides a complete update on NOTES and Single Port procedures taking into account surgeon and gastroenterologist experience.

Surgical approches and technical instrumentations are in continuous development. In this lecture, Professor Didier Mutter, MD, PhD, FACS, presents the evolution of digestive surgery from open to minimally invasive approaches and presents the future perspectives of hybrid surgery.