Essa Aleassa MD
@EssaAleassaMD
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Emirati Advanced Foregut Surgeon (Bari+HPB+Transplant) at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪 | 🇨🇦 Board in Surg | Cleveland Clinic Alumnus 🇺🇸 | #trailblazer ☺️
Abu Dhabi
Joined November 2010
Very excited to share that our textbook on Intraoperative Applications of Near Infrared Fluoroscence Imaging has been published. This milestone would've not been possible without the encouragement of my mentor and friend @KevinElHayekMD. We did it 😎😎 https://t.co/ydDN3Ot38l
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👩🚀 Houston: we have a problem! 🪐 🚨 The @ISGPS_news definitions of complications suffer for significant interobserver variability 🙉 13 centers - 68% agreement 🙈 🏥 Within centers increase to 84% 💡Efforts / new tools needed! 👉 https://t.co/yoQaiNBSyz
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SAGES & ASTS Consider #BariatricSurgery prior to Liver Transplant if: 🔺BMI>35 🔺MELD< 15 🔺Platelet>50 🔺INR<2.5 🔺Albumin>2.5 🔺No or minimal ascites 🔺No or mild encephalopathy 🔺Nothing more than small esophageal varices https://t.co/Vy0i4zFNYn
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The EUROPA trial randomizing pts➡️open (🔪n=29) vs robotic Whipple (🤖n=33) just dropped. Cumulative complications🟰:🔪34%,🤖36% Panc specific grade B/C rates❌:🔪58%,🤖33% DGE rates❌:🔪6%,🤖34% Cost❌:🔪$21,429,🤖$33,503 A few thoughts in this thread: https://t.co/qZtNZvsgy3
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1st RCT #robot vs #open #pancreatoduodenectomy is out: phase 2 #EUROPA trial @LancetRH_Europe ! Will be published with our invited comment @nine_degraaf 🔑 No benefits robot 🔑 Conclusion? Done early in the centers’ learning curve ➡️ 23% conversion rate 🔑 Phase 3 RCTs needed:
Robotic 🤜🤛 open pancreatoduodenectomy : the EUROPA RCT 🇩🇪 🥇 Primary endpoint CCI no difference 🟰 90 days mortality 4.8 % 🟰 blood loss 🤖 Higher pancreas specific complications (60% vs. 30%) and DGE 🙅♂️ Intraop conversion rate 23% 🫵 Comments?! https://t.co/Ud5GWyyvoz
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HPB cafe # 13 Happy to host Pr @timpawlik 🗓️: 21/2/2024 🕗: 20:00 (GMT+4) (ET 11:00 AM) Now it is CPD accredited Zoom registration: https://t.co/6naX46pUXS
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Esteemed panel of experts discussing Malignant Pancreas Conditions. #GulfMENA_HPB @asuhool @Abuhilal9Abu
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The registration for #IEGUMILS 2024 is now open 🙋. Register at https://t.co/UN1Z3vFy6z and join us in this key event. Also @eahpba Premeeting Course 6- May with live Lap and Rob surgery @ILLS_LAPLIVER @IHPBA @SAGES_Updates @Aicep4 @hpb_so . See photos for details @rubenciria
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Submit your abstracts and videos to the 1st International Consensus Conference on Robotic HPB Surgery and spend a few days in December in Paris! You are most welcome to participate in amazing discussions with international experts. #HPB #ConsensusConference #Paris
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Today is the day… 2nd meeting of the Global Guidelines on IPMN and Cystic Tumors of the Pancreas @EurPancClub @IAPonline @my_ueg @EAHPBA @EsgarSociety @JSHBPS @CUpancreas @CUSurgOnc #EPC2023
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Summary of completed and ongoing neoadjuvant trials for resectable and borderline resectable pancreas cancer. @juliomayol @TomVargheseJr @SAGES_Updates @AnnSurgOncol @letswinpc @MPishvaian @PanCAN @SurgJournal @Shrikhande_SV @IHPBA
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Well deserved!!
I’m deeply honored & humbled to receive the ‘Distinguished Clinical Research Achievement Award’ from @CRForumUS for our @JAMA_current @JAMANetwork study showing a large cancer risk reduction after bariatric surgery
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Great effort by all contributing authors 🙏
Great work by @EssaAleassaMD and the Clinical Issues committee @ASMBS on tackling this important issue! ASMBS Literature Review on the Effect of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Limb Lengths on Outcomes
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Very nice review on trial design. Great article for trainees. @ejsotweets @IHPBA @SSATNews @SocSurgOnc @SAGES_Updates
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Surgery is central to the cure of most solid cancers and an integral part of modern multimodal cancer management for early and advanced stage cancers. Decisions made by surgeons and multidisciplinary...
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Congratulations my friend! You are missed in #AHPBA23
Last week I performed my 1000th liver resection @azgroeninge Grateful to have made this journey with top team of nurses and anesthesiologists. ‘When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back’ M Schumacher @ILLS_LAPLIVER
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And we are off! Great attendance and amazing speakers for our first session on CRC liver Mets. Gene mutations, laparoscopic Rxb, transplant and chemo. We got it all covered. @sapisochin @ErinBaker_MD @vreelant and others. #ahpba23
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.@Newsweek has ranked @ClevelandClinic the #2 hospital in the world. Our caregivers make this possible. They are dedicated to providing the highest quality care to our patients around the world. https://t.co/OxSBEH7wvC
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Cleveland Clinic is ranked as the No. 2 hospital in the world again by Newsweek’s World’s Best Hospitals 2023 list. Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital and Cleveland Clinic...
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Join us this Wednesday 8/2 at 7pm 🇬🇧 for the latest instalment of the @T4UGIS HPB webinar; Interventions in severe pancreatitis. Speakers @IRHorton & @drnataliegastro
#some4surgery @EAHPBA @BASO_ACS @IHPBA @GBIHPBAnews @pancreatitis_nl @PainapStudy @Panc_Study @PancSocGBI
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Precision and personalized medicine come through team work and standarizzation. Experts are working to standarize the pathological assessment of surgical specimens from biopsy to chemoth. 🙏Join us for an exiting novel MDT concept @EAHPBA @IHPBA @Bas_Uijterwijk @MarcBesselink
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