Abstract
Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) is a dynamically developing branch of miniinvasive surgery. The NOTES experiment begun in the porcine model for acquiring experience at the Surgical departement in the University Hospital in Hradec Králové.
Hybrid NOTES cholecystectomy with transgastric and transrectal approaches in the porcine model were performed there. Eight animals were operated and were observed for 7 to 14 days after operations.
A post-operative morbidity and mortality was found as well as a post-mortal examination for intraperitoneal complications. Three transgastric and five transrectal hybrid cholecystoctomies were performed.
No post-operative complication in post-mortal exploration were found, gastrotomy and colotomy were healed primarily, there were no signs for peritonitis. The experimental study showed the posibility of futher continuing development of the hybrid NOTES technique in the porcine model.