SAGES 2009 Annual Meeting
Surgical Spring Week Presentations

April 22-24, 2009
Phoenix Convention Center
Phoenix, Arizona

∇ SS08: Plenary Session I

Moderators: C. Daniel Smith, MD and Abe Fingerhut, MD

S037 LAPAROSCOPIC COLECTOMY IS SAFER THAN OPEN COLECTOMY: A PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHED, RISKADJUSTED ANALYSIS FROM 183 HOSPITALS Robert T Lancaster, MD, David M Shahian, MD, Matthew M Hutter, MD, Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

S038 A POPULATION-BASED ANALYSIS OF EMERGENT VS. ELECTIVE HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS FOR AN INTRATHORACIC STOMACH Marek Polomsky, MD, Boris Sepesi, MD, Matthew C O’Connor, BA, Daniel P Raymond, MD, Virginia R Litle, MD, Carolyn Jones, MD, Thomas J Watson, MD, Jeffrey H Peters, MD, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY

S039 SERUM LEPTIN LEVELS ARE INVERSELY CORRELATED WITH OMENTAL GENE EXPRESSION OF ADIPONECTIN AND ARE MARKEDLY DECREASE AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY Sarah Evans, MD, Jiegen Chen, PhD, Zehra Pamuklar, PhD, Alfonso Torquati, MD, Duke University, Department of Surgery, Durham, NC

S040 REGRESSION OF DYSLIPIDEMIA IN TYPE 2 DIABETIC PATIENTS WITH BMI BELOW 30 SUBMITTED TO THE LAPAROSCOPIC ILEAL INTERPOSITION Aureo L De Paula, PhD, Antonio L Macedo, MD, Cesar A Machado, MD, Vladimir Schraibman, MD, Luis Q Silva, MD, Bruno Mota, MD, ergio Vencio, Hospital de Especialidades, Goiania, Brazil

S041 TOTALLY LAPAROSCOPIC LIVER RESECTION FOR HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA LOCATED IN ALL SEGMENTS OF THE LIVER Yoo-Soek Yoon, MD, Ho-Seong Han, MD, Jai Young Cho, MD, Keun Soo Ahn, MD, Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul, Korea