Taipei Veterans General Hospital

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Medicine

Sleeve Gastrectomy in Mice using Surgical Clips

Jih-Hua Wei^1,2,3, Che-Hung Yeh⁴, Wei-Jei Lee⁵, Shing-Jong Lin^3,6,7,8,9, Po-Hsun Huang^3,6,7

¹Cardiovascular Division, Internal Medicine Department, Min-Sheng General Hospital, ²Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, School of Healthcare Management, Kai-Nan University, ³Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, ⁴Food Science and Biotechnology, College of Biotechnology and Bioresources, University of Da-Yeh, ⁵Department of Surgery, Min-Sheng General Hospital, ⁶Department of Critical Care Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, ⁷Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, ⁸Division of Cardiology, Heart Center, Cheng-Hsin General Hospital, ⁹Taipei Medical University

The prevalence of diabetes and obesity is continuously increasing worldwide. The mechanisms between diabetes, obesity and their associated mortality and co-morbidities need to be further investigated. Here, we present a protocol for sleeve gastrectomy (SG) in animals as an uncomplicated preclinical model of bariatric surgery.

Medicine

Laparoscopic-Assisted Seldinger Technique for Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Insertion

Cheng-Yen Chen^1,2, Ming-Tsun Tsai^2,3, Niang-Cheng Lin^1,2, Chih-Ching Lin^2,3, Szu-Yuan Li^2,3

¹Division of Transplantation Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, ²School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, ³Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital

Here, we present a protocol for performing the laparoscopic-assisted Seldinger technique (LAST) for peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheter insertion, highlighting a combination of the Seldinger method's minimal invasiveness with the enhanced visualization of laparoscopy.