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Technical University of Munich
Technical University of Munich

Jana Steger

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Email: jana.steger(at)tum.de

Finished Projects

CONNECT

Transluminal Anastomosis in the Gastrointestinal Tract

One of the most frequently performed operations in visceral surgery is the removal of pathogenic bowel segments. Indications for such operations can be benign and malignant diseases such as tumours. 

In order to restore the patency of the digestive tract after the removal of an intestinal segment, the ends of the intestine must be rejoined. This procedure is called anastomosis. In addition to conventional suture and stapling techniques, implants can also be used to create a liquid- and gas-tight anastomosis, i.e. reconnection of the intestine.

The aim of the project is the development of an ubiquitously applicable, transluminal, size-scalable anastomosis system, which allows the microinvasive realization of anastomoses in large parts of the gastrointestinal tract and thereby avoids the disadvantages of current anastomosis methods.

The CONNECT project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (funding code: 386233407)

Publications

  • Steger, Jana; Zimmermann, Anne; Wittenberg, Thomas; Wilhelm, Dirk. "Electromagnets for an endoscopic anastomosis tool in the colon." Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering 7, no. 1 (2021): 39-42.

  • Steger, Jana; Patzke, Isabella; Berlet, Max; Ficht, Stefanie; Eblenkamp, Markus; Mela, Petra, Wilhelm, Dirk. (2021). "Design of a force-measuring setup for colorectal compression anastomosis and first ex-vivo results". International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 1-11.

  • Steger, Jana, Stefanie Ficht, Daniel Ostler, Alissa Jell, Hubertus Feußner, Petra Mela, Markus Eblenkamp, and Dirk Wilhelm. "Anastomoses in Visceral Surgery-First Approach towards a Universal Transluminal System for Micro Invasive Application." In 2019 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI), pp. 983-986. IEEE, 2019.

 

Expert Lectures

CURAC 2020: Entwicklung einer transluminalen Anastomosierungstechnik für den Gastrointestinaltrakt.
Hamburg, Germany

IEEE CPS - CSCI 2019: Anastomoses in visceral surgery - first approach towards a universal transluminal system for micro invasive application.
Las Vegas, United States of America, 05.12.2019

T-Plas - 2nd Medical Plastics Engineering Symposium 2019: Highly Function-Integrated Plastic Instruments for Minimally Invasive Surgery.
Bangkok, Thailand, 19.09.2019

 

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