ArticlePatient safety in surgery2018
Intraoperative real-time fluorescence angiography with indocyanine green for evaluation of intestinal viability during surgery for an incarcerated obturator hernia: a case report.
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- Human Factors and Quantitative Data: Diverging Perspectives on ICG use in Emergency Bowel Surgery - A systematic literature review.Updates in surgery · 2026Pooled it
- Application of fluorescence-guided surgery in the acute care setting: a systematic literature review.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2023Pooled it
- Obturator hernias: a systematic review of the literature.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2021Pooled it
- Indocyanine green fluorescence-guided surgery in the emergency setting: the WSES international consensus position paper.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2025Article
- A Green Lantern for the Surgeon: A Review on the Use of Indocyanine Green (ICG) in Minimally Invasive Surgery.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Fluorescence angiography vs. direct palpation for bowel viability evaluation with strangulated bowel obstruction.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2022Article
- Does preoperative enhanced CT predict requirement of intestinal resection in the patients with incarcerated myopectineal hernias containing small bowel?Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2021Article
- Laparoscopic surgery for two patients with strangulated transomental hernias.Surgical case reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundBowel incarceration represents a dreaded complication amongst patients with hernias. The intraoperative evaluation of the bowel perfusion following hernia reduction with regard to the need for resection of ischaemic bowel can be challenging. In this case report we discuss intraoperative fluorescence angiography with indocyanine green (ICG) as an objective means of accessing bowel perfusion following hernia reduction. CASE PRESENTATION: The case of a 92-year-old, caucasian, female patient presenting with symptoms of small bowel obstruction secondary to an incarcerated left sided obturator hernia is presented. An incarcerated segment of the small bowel was reduced during emergency laparoscopy. Intraoperative ICG fluorescence angiography revealed ischaemic changes in the normal appearing bowel, so that the involved segment was resected. The postoperative course was uneventful and the patient was discharged home safely on postoperative day seven.
conclusionIntraoperative ICG fluorescence angiography provides an objective method of judging bowel perfusion and therefore represents a useful tool for assessing intestinal perfusion in patients with incarcerated hernia.
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