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| Brian E LouieSummaryAffiliation: Swedish Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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Length and pressure of the reconstructed lower esophageal sphincter is determined by both crural closure and Nissen fundoplicationBrian E Louie
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Swedish Cancer Institute and Medical Center, Suite 850, 1101 Madison Street, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Gastrointest Surg 17:236-43. 2013..We hypothesized gastroesophageal junction competence effected by Nissen fundoplication results from closure of the crural diaphragm and creation of the fundoplication...- Early experience with robotic lung resection results in similar operative outcomes and morbidity when compared with matched video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery casesBrian E Louie
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Swedish Cancer Institute, Seattle, Washington 98105, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 93:1598-604; discussion 1604-5. 2012..Therefore, we compared our initial experience with robotic anatomic resection to our most recent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) cases... - Is esophagectomy the paradigm for volume-outcome relationships?Brian E Louie
Section of Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery, Swedish Cancer Institute and Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
J Gastrointest Surg 14:S115-20. 2010..Esophagectomy is considered one of the most complicated, difficult to perform, and physiologically altering operations performed by surgeons... - Repair of symptomatic giant paraesophageal hernias in elderly (>70 years) patients results in improved quality of lifeBrian E Louie
Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, Swedish Cancer Institute and Medical Center, Suite 850, 1101 Madison Street, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
J Gastrointest Surg 15:389-96. 2011..These are usually symptomatic and commonly occur in the elderly. The benefits and risks of operating on elderly patients with giant PEH have not been clearly elucidated... - Safety and utility of mediastinoscopy in non-small cell lung cancer in a complex mediastinumBrian E Louie
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Swedish Cancer Institute and Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 92:278-82; discussion 282-3. 2011..We sought to determine the safety and utility of restaging mediastinoscopy before surgical resection... - A randomized multiinstitution comparison of the laparoscopic Nissen and Hill repairsRalph W Aye
Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 94:951-7; discussion 957-8. 2012..This trial was designed to compare the effectiveness of LHR against the gold-standard LNF... - Comparison of open and minimally invasive thymectomies at a single institutionSamuel J Youssef
Swedish Cancer Institute and Medical Center, 1101 Madison St, Suite 850, Seattle, WA, USA
Am J Surg 199:589-93. 2010..Most thymectomies are performed via sternotomy. Minimally invasive thymectomy (MIT) has been described but its potential benefits and drawbacks remain unclear... - Laparoscopic repair of gastric herniation after extrapleural pneumonectomy for mesotheliomaMelinda Egan
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Swedish Medical Center and Cancer Institute, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 93:e127-9. 2012..This approach is an alternative to repeated thoracotomy and is a viable option for treatment of this difficult problem with potentially less morbidity... - Thoracoscopic talc versus tunneled pleural catheters for palliation of malignant pleural effusionsBen M Hunt
Division of Thoracic Surgery and Interventional Pulmonology, Center for Pleural Diseases, Swedish Cancer Institute, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 94:1053-7; discussion 1057-9. 2012..We compared video-assisted thorascopic (VATS) talc insufflation with placement of a tunneled pleural catheter (TPC) to assess which intervention better met these palliative goals... - Near-infrared fluorescence imaging can help identify the contralateral phrenic nerve during robotic thymectomyOliver J Wagner
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Swedish Medical Center and Cancer Institute, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 94:622-5. 2012..We evaluated the feasibility and technique of fluorescence imaging on the daVinci-Si robot (Intuitive Surgical Inc, Sunnyvale, CA) to identify the contralateral periocardiophrenic neurovascular bundle (PNB)... - Extrapleural pneumonectomy for primary pleural mullerian tumor in a young womanAlexander S Farivar
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Swedish Cancer Institute, Center for Pleural Diseases, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 93:e1-2. 2012..She subsequently underwent intensity-modulated radiotherapy to the right hemithorax. We propose a treatment paradigm for this previously undescribed primary pleural mullerian tumor... - Hemoptysis and thoracic fungal infectionsSeema Kapur
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Swedish Cancer Institute and Medical Center, Suite 850, 1101 Madison Street, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Surg Clin North Am 90:985-1001. 2010..The role of the surgeon is to assist in diagnosis, evaluate and treat pulmonary nodules, and consider resectional therapy for mycetoma and invasive fungal infections in selected candidates...