UGIRA Congress 2025

Program

The presentations of all the UGIRA sessions can be found at this link: UGIRA 2025 presentations.

UGIRA SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS - ABSTRACT AWARDS

Congratulations to the winners of the Abstract Awards at the second UGIRA Congress.

  1. Transforming esophageal surgery: single-port subcostal daVinci robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (SP SC RAMIE)
    V. Lozanovski, C. Wandhoefer, F. Renger, L. Bellaio, E. Hadzijusufovic, O. Meier, E. Tagkalos, H. Lang, P. Grimminger (Germany)

  2. Image-to-patient registration for robotic-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy
    G. Kuiper, R. van Jaarsveld, Y. Li, R. de Jong, Y. al Khalil, R. van Hillegersberg, J. Ruurda (Netherlands)
  3. AI-based quantification of indocyanine green perfusion for prediction of anastomotic leakage in robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE)
    M. Juratli, A. Pascher, J. Hoelzen (Germany)

UGIRA SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS - POSTER AWARDS

Congratulations to the winners of the Poster Awards at the second UGIRA Congress.

  1. Single-Port Robotic Subcostal Ivor-Lewis Esophagectomy as the First Approach to Robotic Esophageal Surgery: Single-Center Data on Feasibility and Early Outcomes
    J. Kuvendjiska; J. Hipp*; HC. Hillebrecht; A. Bührle; S. Fichtner-Feigl
    Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine-University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany

  2. Comparison of Long-Term and Short-Term Outcomes of Robot-Assisted Esophageal Surgery (RAMIE) Compared to Conventional Thoracoscopic Surgery (MIE) in ESCC
    Takeo Fujito
    National Cancer Center Hospital, Japan

  3. Perfusion Assessment for Robot-Assisted Ivor Lewis Esophagectomy Using rPG: A Proof of Concept
    Rebec A. Kneist, W. 4, Galil A. 1, Wisotzky EL 2
    Department of General-, Visceral-, and Thoracic Surgery, Klinikum Darmstadt GmbH, Germany
    Fraunhofer HHI, Berlin, Germany