CUSA® with Tissue Select®, helps you to overcome significant surgical challenges inherent to parenchymal transection. It allows a careful exposure of both vascular and biliary structures to reduce the risk of blood loss and bile leakage leading to postoperative complications.
According to clinical study including 1000 patients, the overall incidence of intraoperative injuries (in general) is 4.4%, and leads to an overall morbidity rate in patients with intraoperative injuries multiplied by 2 compared to the other patients (43.2 against 21.1%).1
Multiple clinical studies point out a strong association between intra-operative blood loss (> 1000 ml) and incidence of post-operative complications such as liver failure.²
As a matter of fact, most blood loss during liver resection occurs during parenchymal transection.
Despite standardized techniques and technological advancement in liver resections, an intraoperative hemorrhage rate ranging from 700 to 1200mL is reported with a postoperative morbidity rate ranging from 23% to 46% and a surgical death rate ranging from 4% to 5%.3
In biliary tract management, Iatrogenic bile duct injury is the most common cause of biliary tract hemorrhage after hepatectomy.
Furthermore, the incidence of postoperative bile leakage following partial liver resection varies between 3.6 and 17%, with multiple causes such as truncation of the distal bile duct in the residual liver, leakage at the bile duct, and injury of the bile duct from inappropriate surgical technique.4
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Cusa® Clarity system can provide you with the versatility needed in your surgical procedures to reach a precise and delicate resection with an efficient surgical pace.
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