Upper GI Surgery Clinical Papers

Assessing the distensibility of the GEJ after GERD surgery

Functional Lumen Imaging Probe to Assess Geometric Changes in the Esophagogastric Junction Following Endolumenal Fundoplication.
Hoppo T, McMahon BP, Witteman BP, Kraemer SJ, O'Rourke RW, Gravesen F, Bouvy ND, Jobe BA.
J. Gastrointest Surg. 2011 Volume 15, Number 7: 1112-1120

Esophagogastric Junction Distensibility After Fundoplication Assessed with a Novel Functional Luminal Imaging Probe
Monika A. Kwiatek, Peter J. Kahrilas, Nathaniel J. Soper, William J. Bulsiewicz, Barry P. McMahon, Hans Gregersen and John E. Pandolfino
Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 2009:13(12) 2219-2225

Restoration of Normal Distensive Characteristics of the Esophagogastric Junction After Fundoplication
John E. Pandolfino, MD, Jennifer Curry, MD, Guoxiang Shi, MD, Raymond J. Joehl, MD, James G. Brasseur, PhD, and Peter J. Kahrilas, MD. Annals of Surgery • Volume 242, Number 1, July 2005

Heller Myotomy

Improving functional esophageal surgery with a “smart” bougie: endoflip

Silvana Perretta, Bernard Dallemagne, Barry McMahon, Jacopo D’Agostino and Jacques Marescaux
Surgical Endoscopy 2011, Volume 25, Number 9, Page 3109

Transoral endoscopic esophageal myotomy based on esophageal function testing in a survival porcine model
Perretta S, Dallemagne B, Donatelli G, Diemunsch P, Marescaux J
Gastrointest Endosc. 2011 Jan;73(1):111-6

Intra-operative use of EndoFLIP^®

Adult esophagogastric junction distensibility during general anesthesia assessed with an endoscopic functional luminal imaging probe (EndoFLIP)
Dr. Leslie K. Nathanson, Nathan Brunott, David Cavallucci
Surgical Endoscopy (Online 26 Oct 2011)

Laparoscopic redo Nissen fundoplication using the EndoFLIP^® (Endolumenal Functional Lumen Imaging Probe) Imaging System.
Dallemagne B, Perretta S, Marescaux J.
Epublication: WeBSurg.com, Apr 2010;10(4).