SAGES 2017

Friday, March 24, 2017
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM *Included in Registration SuperPass (Option A) or Registration Option C
Your Session: Challenges in the Diagnosis and
Management of GERD and Achalasia
Chair: Andrew Wright, MD | Co-Chair: Simon Bergman, MD
SESSION DESCRIPTION
In this innovative session, topics suggested and voted upon by SAGES members will be addressed by experts in
the field with audience participation through the meeting app, social media, and live discussion. The focus will
be on challenging and interesting problems in the management of reflux, achalasia, hypermotility disorders, and
paraesophageal hernias.
SESSION OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
• Assess and manage patients with GERD who present with complex and challenging clinical scenarios such as
obesity, recurrence, or concomitant motility disorders
• Apply and integrate new treatment strategies and techniques such as POEM for achalasia or magnetic sphincter
augmentation for GERD
• Recognize and manage common and uncommon complications and side effects of anti-reflux and esophageal
motility surgery
ACTIVITY OUTLINE
Time Presentation Title Invited Faculty
3:00PM
GERD
Esophageal Physiology for the General Surgeon: How to interpret studies; why and how to
set up your own lab
Edward Auyang, MD, MS
3:15PM The Perfect Wrap: Nissen, Toupet, or Tailored Approach? Enrique Elli, MD
3:30PM Dealing with the “Failed” Fundoplication Anna Ibele, MD
3:45PM
How to manage a Giant PEH: When (and how) should I use mesh or relaxing incisions,
a lengthening procedures, or gastropexy
Achalasia and Other Motility Disorders
Robert Yates, MD
4:00PM Diagnosis and Management of Achalasia Variants Edward Auyang, MD, MS
4:15PM
What is the role of the surgeon in Hypermotility disorders (DES, Nutcracker, Hypertensive
LES)
LEARNING THEMES:
FOR Foregut
NATIONAL PRIORITIES
Ellen Morrow, MD
GUIDELINES:
• A Consensus Document on Robotic Surgery
• Guidelines for the Management of Hiatal Hernia
• SAGES TAVAC Safety and Effectiveness Analysis: LINX Reflux
Management System
• Guidelines for the Surgical Treatment of Esophageal
Achalasia
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM SS23 Hernia Video Session *Included in Registration SuperPass (Option A) or Registration Option C
Moderator: Diya I. Alaedeen, MD | Co-Moderator: Alfons Pomp, MD
V118 DRAGO’S HERNIA: A CASE OF MULTIPLE RARE INGUINAL HERNIAS INCLUDING AN AMYAND HERNIA, A SUPRAVESICAL HERNIA,
A URINARY BLADDER HERNIA, AND A LIPOMA OF THE CORDS ALL COEXISTING IN A SINGLE PATIENT John Ray B Yang, MD, Raymund
G Ong, MD; Far Eastern University Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation
V119 ROBOTIC RECTUS DIASTASIS CLOSURE & UMBILICAL HERNIA REPAIR Shirin Towfigh, MD 1 , Rachel Dbeis 2 ; 1 Beverly Hills Hernia
Center, California, USA, 2 University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK
V120 ROBOTIC TAPP PARASTOMAL HERNIA REPAIR. Victor Maciel, MD 1 ,Gabriel Arevalo, MD 2 , Wilmer Mata, MD 2 , Tim Glass, MD, FACS 2 ;
1
Jackson South Community Hospital, 2 St. Vincent Hospital
SAGES 2017 Surgical Spring Week
V121 SPORTS HERNIA REPAIR WITH ADDUCTOR TENOTOMY Robert A Grossman, MD, Fred Brody, MD, MBA; George Washington
University
V122 RTAR AND BILATERAL INGUINAL HERNIA REPAIR AT THE TIME OF ROBOTIC PROSTATECTOMY Igor Belyansky, MD, Nan Wu, Adam
Weltz, Reza Zahiri, Robert Hanley, Adrian Park; Anne Arundel Medical Center
V123 LAPAROSCOPIC REPAIR OF INCISIONAL HERNIA SECONDARY TO ILIAC BONE GRAFT HARVEST Ajay K Chopra, MD, Jordan S Taylor,
MD; Jacobi Medical Center
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