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100 % primary hemostasis rate and improved management of rebleeding with OTSC® used as first line therapy

Lamberts R and colleagues, HELIOS Park-Hospital, Department II for Internal Medicine, Leipzig, Germany, conducted a retrospective study examining success rates in hemostasis of acute upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding with the OTSC System as first or second line therapy in patients…

OTSC safe and effective for treatment of leak at the tip of the “J” ileal pouch

OTSC® System – Ovesco Endoscopy AG

66.6 % of patients with leaking from the “J” of the tip of an ileo-anal pouch anastomosis were spared surgery by use of the OTSC®

The tip of the “J” ileal pouch is the vulnerable location for leak after restorative proctocolectomy, which has normally been treated with surgery.

Lian L and Shen B, Interventional IBD Center, Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute,…

OTSC safe and effective for treatment of leak at the tip of the “J” ileal pouch

66.6 % of patients with leaking from the “J” of the tip of an ileo-anal pouch anastomosis were spared surgery by use of the OTSC®

The tip of the “J” ileal pouch is the vulnerable location for leak after restorative proctocolectomy, which has normally been treated with surgery.

Lian L and Shen B, Interventional IBD Center, Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH,…

Systematic review: leaks and fistulae after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy successfully closed by OTSC® in 86.3 %

leaks and fistulae after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy successfully closed by OTSC® in 86.3 %

A systematic literature review evaluating efficacy and safety of the OTSC System in the management of leak and fistula after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) was published by Shoar S et al., Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, department of surgery, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Icahn School of…

Closure of acute GI defects with OTSC® successful in more than 75 % of patients of an unselected cohort

Raithel M and colleagues, Department of Medicine II, University Erlangen, Germany presented data from three tertiary referral centers with 24-h emergency endoscopy (Erlangen, Wuerzburg, Fuerth) on patients receiving OTSC® therapy for acute gastrointestinal wall defects.

Unselected consecutive patients presenting with acute non-surgical perforations, postoperative anastomotic leaks or inadvertent…