DISCLAIMER
THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS NOT OFFICIAL MEDICAL INFORMATION AND SHOULD NOT REPLACE CONSULTATION WITH A MEDICAL DOCTOR ON COLON TREATMENT.

Surgery can be defined according to the indication:  Inflammatory Bowel Diseases including Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative Colitis; Diverticulitis; Colonic Polyps and Colorectal Cancer. In colon cancer surgery, the cancer is usually removed, in a procedure often referred to as a colonic resection.

Another way of categorizing surgery is according to the anatomical location of the resection e.g. right hemi-colectomy, left hemi-colectomy, sigmoidectomy, anterior resection including low and very low, segmental resection and total colectomy.

Yet another way of categorizing surgery is according to the surgical technique used. There are two main techniques used in colon surgery: Open Surgery and Laparoscopic Surgery. NiTi’s ColonRing may be used in both types of Open or Laparoscopic procedures.

In a surgical procedure where a part of the colon is removed, there is a need to rejoin the remaining parts. The rejoining of the two parts is called anastomosis. Anastomosis is defined as the surgical joining of two ducts, vessels or bowel segments. “Anastomosis” originates from the Greek. The term anastomosis has been in medical use since the second century AD, when the Greek physician Galen used the term to describe the interconnections between blood vessels. The plural of anastomosis is anastomoses.

NiTi’s ColonRing is used for compression anastomosis in colorectal surgery. The technology used in the ColonRing is called BioDynamix™ Anastomosis and it encourages natural healing.