Minimally invasive Pancreatoduodenectomy 🎯How to guide patient selection?! 🧐 🚦 Complexity and Experience grading from ISGPS 👍 Patient factors include anatomy, vascular contact, conditional 🏥 Surgeon + center annual MIPD experience 👉journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 - The E-AHPBA Early Career Group are recruiting volunteers for the Steering Group! APPLY HERE: surveymonkey.com/r/NBCN2L7 IHPBA Aiste Gulla Marc Besselink Giovanni Marchegiani

Syst review and meta-analysis of 2 RCTs (including our PANDORINA trial) and 6 NCS with a total of 3.610 patients undergoing distal pancreatectomy ➡️ No-drain policy associated with better postop outcomes❗️Who is still draining ❓journals.lww.com/international-… Marc Besselink E-AHPBA

@ Pancreatic surgeons: Do you perform total pancreatectomy in patients at high risk of pancreatic fistula? IHPBA GBIHPBA E-AHPBA Pancreatic Cancer UK EPC-Europ Pancr Club Pancreas Verona panc gs.amegroups.org/article/view/1…

Robert Sutcliffe IHPBA GBIHPBA E-AHPBA Pancreatic Cancer UK EPC-Europ Pancr Club Pancreas Verona panc It remains a fascinating discussion. Our systematic review in Annals of Surgery is hopefully helpful to guide this debate ⬇️ 📌 journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger… 📎 journals.lww.com/aosopen/fullte… Poya Ghorbani Marc Besselink Marco Del Chiaro Giovanni Marchegiani Bas Groot Koerkamp

👩‍🚀 Houston: we have a problem! 🪐 🚨 The ISGPS definitions of complications suffer for significant interobserver variability 🙉 13 centers - 68% agreement 🙈 🏥 Within centers increase to 84% 💡Efforts / new tools needed! 👉journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…

New research - Alternating gemcitabine + nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine alone versus continuous gemcitabine + nab-paclitaxel after induction treatment of metastatic pancreatic cancer (ALPACA): a randomised phase 2 trial thelancet.com/journals/langa… #GITwitter #OncTwitter OncoAlert

Tranexamic Acid in Patients Undergoing Liver Resection: The HeLiX Randomized Clinical Trial ⁦JAMA⁩ jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Bariatric surgery was associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer in women with obesity. The risk reduction was strongest in women with high insulin levels at baseline. ja.ma/4fOTLKs

Dear pancreas surgeons, please fill in this 🌏international survey✏️ on #pancreatic neck/body #cancer with portal vein involvement on behalf of Japanese Society of HBP Surgery E-AHPBA EPC-Europ Pancr Club IHPBA AHPBA The Pancreas Club AHPBA docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/… SoMe4HPB Giovanni Marchegiani Bas Groot Koerkamp

💡LIDOPAN study: multicenter pilot trial 💉 IV lidocaine for patients in pain with PDAC and CP 👥30 patients, NRS >4 📈 No overall clinically relevant pain reduction day 1 🤩 31% positive effect, lasted op to a month ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/39163321 ACG_CTG

Learning curve stratified outcomes after robotic pancreatoduodenectomy: International multicenter experience surgjournal.com/article/S0039-… Another great SURGERY Journal study from Marc Besselink

This study reports five year follow-up outcomes for patients with symptomatic cholelithiasis comparing patients who received surgery vs a nonoperative approach. ja.ma/4dRccfJ

Authors Philip de Reuver and Daan Comes discuss "Restrictive Strategy vs Usual Care for Cholecystectomy in Patients With Gallstones and Abdominal Pain: 5-Year Follow-Up of the SECURE Randomized Clinical Trial" with JAMA Surgery Web Editor TXAggieBurnDoc. ja.ma/4dw9SLy

So you've decided to operate this IPMN? Now how to do it? Join Society of Surgical Oncology🌎 & E-AHPBA 🌍 panel of experts Ajay Maker Melissa Hogg Giovanni Marchegiani Marc Besselink 🔍Review challenging operative scenarios 🔍Ask your questions 📆 Sept 18 Get the link 👉🏻 ow.ly/YtBy50T2bKu

Please take the survey on the use of volumetry in liver surgery by our current international Karolinska-HPB fellow Tim Reese endorsed by E-AHPBA Scientific and Research Committee Karolinska Univ.sjuk Karolinska Institutet SoMe4HPB Stefan Gilg Joris Erdmann #PHLF docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

International effort by the ISGACA to establish a research framework for the rare non-pancreatic peri-ampullary cancers - Michele Milella oncodaily.com/insight/132384 Bas Uijterwijk Daan Lemmers Michele Ghidini MD, PhD Elisa Bannone Marc Besselink Mohamed Abu Hilal

E-AHPBA Scientific & Research Committee are pleased to endorse the following survey with a Blue Seal: International Survey about the use of volumetry of the Future Liver Remnant to prevent liver failure after hepatic resection. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…… Karolinska-HPB

🌎 Liver surgeons: What is your experience with FLR-volumetry? ⚖️ Do you believe that volumetry is a good tool? 🔪 Necessary for a right hepatectomy? 📈 5 minutes to complete our survey 🔗 forms.gle/KGxZ35RXsQqkWb… E-AHPBA Ernesto Sparrelid Kjetil Søreide IHPBA @HPBjournal BJS

Pancreatic cysts are often found incidentally on imaging tests for other indications. Imaging, symptom assessment, and laboratory tests can help distinguish benign cysts from those associated with a risk of malignant transformation. Learn more: nej.md/4g4jz5s