Journal of Gastrointestinal & Digestive System
Open Access

Abstract

Gastrointestinal endoscopy is a medical instrument for examining the interior canal of digestive tract. The use of the tool has been reported as early as 1822 by William Beaumont. Modern endoscopy as what we now daily use, has been invented in 1983. Various digestive diseases that previously must be diagnosed and treated by invasive method can now take the advantage of flexible endoscopy with ease of procedure and excellent diagnostic accuracy, and can even achieve therapeutic results without open surgery. This presentation will show a brief history of GI endoscopy, listing indications of endoscopy, and more importantly will show recent advances in the field of surgical endoscopy. Clinical results, success rate as well as its complications will be discussed.

Biography

Reno Rudiman is a Digestive Surgeon at Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung, Indonesia. He completed his Master’s degree at University of Aberdeen, UK and PhD at Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia. He also completed his training in General Surgery and Digestive Surgery at Universitas Padjadjaran. He has published numerous national as well as international publications on surgery. He has a special interest in Minimal Invasive Surgery. He was among the first surgeons in Indonesia licensed to perform robotic surgery. He is a national faculty member of the Indonesian Society of Endolaparoscopic Surgery, and regularly teaches Endolaparoscopy.

Email: rudiman@unpad.ac.id