Abdominal Wall Workshop
The Abdominal Wall Robotic Workshop on Rectus Plication
This workshop is to provide an advance and deeper understanding of our abdominal wall and the core muscle system. The core muscle plays an important structure in our body physics for our daily movements and activities provide spine stabilization and rectus diastasis can affect most of our physiological functions like the respiratory, gastrointestinal and urogynaecology system as well.
The Workshop Director, Dr Marco Faria-Correa who has more than 35 years of experience in treating various types of hernias –ventral hernia, umbilical hernia, incisional hernia and rectus diastasis will show and discuss a series of patients up to 20 years follow-up presenting with successful results and a series of secondary surgeries repairing unsuccessful cases. He will also discuss an in-depth. study of his personal experience as well as a bibliography review of the different stitching methods of plication, with the use of different sutures material, and the long-term evaluation of the efficacy and longevity of the muscle-aponeurotic plication by abdominal wall CT scan and linear ultrasound. With an analysis of the trans-operative findings in secondary cases.
Dr Marco will conclusion of what was the reason for failure and what should be the ideal material and method for rectus plication is discussed.
You will enjoy one full day workshop with a live surgical demonstration on the repair of muscles aponeurotic rectus plication using the robotic da Vinci® Surgical System, lectures and panel discussion with renowned General / Robotic Surgeons on topics about Ventral and Umbilical Hernias as well as Renowned Robotic Gynaecologist topics with interactive Q & A sessions.
Our Clinic Location
Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre
#10-26/27,
38 Irrawaddy Road
Singapore 329563
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