HISTORICAL ARCHIVE · WIDER-BARCELONA · 2007—2023
W.I.D.E.R. · B2007—2023
W.I.D.E.R. Barcelona

Documents

Scientific reports, interviews, publications and press.

2009–2018

Scientific reports

The yearly reports record publications, congress presentations, experimental work and the international activity of the WIDER team.

2009

Scientific activity 2009

The 2009 report lists five scientific papers, nine congress communications and the team’s teaching activity. It includes the initial experimental NOTES results published in Cirugía Española, as well as work in European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology and Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Gastric closure was presented at the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery meeting in Prague and at the Spanish surgical meeting; the team also published the DVD Endoscòpia Digestiva i N.O.T.E.S. with NORMED Verlag in Hamburg.

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2011

WIDER-B 2011 report

A key source for the transition from laboratory work to clinical application. It describes full-thickness resection of a malignant colonic tumour closed with OverStitch, work on choledochoduodenostomy, cystogastrostomy and gastroenterostomy, and a prospective study with Per-Ola Park’s Swedish group. Publications include an endoscopic suturing report in Endoscopy and clinical papers in American Journal of Gastroenterology and Digestive and Liver Disease. Work was presented at DDW Chicago, EURO-NOTES Frankfurt and SGI Seoul.

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2012–2013

WIDER-B 2012–13 report

Documents full-thickness endoscopic resection, perforation closure, gastroenterostomy and EUS-guided procedures. Publications include work in Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy; DDW presentations included gastrointestinal cancer resection “from animal experiments to humans” and colonic perforation closure following a controlled animal study. The team also presented at EURO-NOTES, SMIT Barcelona and meetings in Seoul, Boston, Guangzhou, Nanjing and Harbin.

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2014

WIDER-B 2014 report

By 2014 the programme was fully embedded in advanced endoscopy: haemostasis, perforations and fistulas, EUS, drainage, tumour resection and live demonstrations. DDW Chicago included work on endoscopic haemostasis and pancreatic diagnosis; the Society of Gastrointestinal Intervention programme included seven WIDER communications and a live demonstration from Barcelona. Armengol-Miró also took part in meetings in Pamplona, Istanbul, Prague, Harbin, Milan, Udine and Moscow.

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2018

WIDER-B 2018 report

The report combines publications from 2016–2017 with extensive international activity. Papers include work in Brain and Behavior and Oncogene, alongside clinical research in imaging and pancreatic cancer. WIDER activity appeared at SGI Seoul, ESGE Days, DDW, UEG Week, the Tokyo Masters Forum and endoscopy meetings in China and Europe. It also records EUS elastography, stenting for bariatric complications, colonic obstruction and complex therapeutic endoscopy, including live transmissions from Barcelona.

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2007–2009

Origins and interviews

The earliest interviews show how the project was formulated before the 2009 agreement and which clinical and technical problems it set out to solve.

2007

E-NOTES project · AEED News

Armengol-Miró presents E-NOTES as a new stage in therapeutic endoscopy. He discusses transgastric access, the unresolved problem of closure and suturing, animal experimentation and the need to train a new generation across the traditional boundary between endoscopy and surgery. The interview places the Spanish project within the emerging NOSCAR and EURO-NOTES networks.

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2007

Noticias Médicas interview

A long interview from before the formal creation of WIDER. It reviews the international origins of NOTES, the animal work already under way at Vall d’Hebron, the possible transgastric, transvaginal, transrectal and transvesical routes, and the technological limits of the time. It is also an important source on Armengol-Miró’s professional career and his work at both Vall d’Hebron and Hospital Quirón Barcelona.

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2009

Letter from the director

Armengol-Miró explains the newly signed agreement in his own words and links the institutional project to the international course and to a programme of continuing scientific and teaching activity throughout the year.

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2009 · 2019

Institutional milestones

Two agreements defined the scale of the project: its formal launch and, ten years later, the technological expansion of the service.

2009

Creation of WIDER-Barcelona

The institutional release defines the centre around technology, experimental NOTES, clinical innovation and training, backed by an initial €10 million commitment from ”la Caixa”.

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Research

Research and clinical work

Papers and contemporary coverage document the experimental programme and the move towards procedures performed in selected patients.

2009

NOTES: initial experimental results

The Cirugía Española paper describes the experimental programme around peritoneal access and gastric closure, one of the central technical problems that had to be solved before NOTES could be translated safely into clinical practice.

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2011

Noticias Médicas · WIDER Barcelona

Coverage of the fifth course captures the transition towards clinical application: new suturing systems, POEM, therapeutic EUS and the debate over when an experimental procedure was ready for a patient. It also includes interviews with several of the international specialists invited to Barcelona.

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2012

Institutional report on the first two patients

The institutional report presents the two full-thickness endoscopic resections performed by WIDER —a colonic lesion and a gastric tumour— using continuous suturing without laparoscopic support. It documents the transition from animal experimentation to clinical application and the aim of reducing incisions, pain and recovery time.

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2012

Noticias Médicas · NOTES surgery

A special report on the two full-thickness endoscopic resections performed by the WIDER team. It explains the procedures, continuous endoscopic suturing and the clinical reasoning behind moving from animal experimentation to carefully selected patients.

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2012

Press

The public presentation of the two clinical cases in 2012 was covered by several Spanish newspapers.

2012

ABC

Coverage of the full-thickness endoscopic resections and continuous suturing without laparoscopic support.

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2012

La Vanguardia

Report on the two treated patients and the development of minimally invasive endoscopic techniques at Vall d’Hebron.

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2012

El Periódico de Catalunya

Coverage of the transition from experimental surgery to clinical application and the possibilities of transluminal endoscopy.

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2012

La Razón

Report on the 2012 press presentation and the procedures developed by the WIDER team.

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2012

ARA

Additional press coverage of the presentation of WIDER-Barcelona’s two pioneering clinical resections.

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2012

Canarias7

Additional press coverage of the presentation of WIDER-Barcelona’s two pioneering clinical resections.

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2012

Diario del Alto Aragón

Additional press coverage of the presentation of WIDER-Barcelona’s two pioneering clinical resections.

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2012

El Punt Avui

Additional press coverage of the presentation of WIDER-Barcelona’s two pioneering clinical resections.

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2012

La Gaceta

Additional press coverage of the presentation of WIDER-Barcelona’s two pioneering clinical resections.

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2012

ARA · semáforo

Additional press coverage of the presentation of WIDER-Barcelona’s two pioneering clinical resections.

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Archive

Other scientific and teaching documents

2013

Noticias Médicas · 7th course

Extended coverage of the seventh course and its NOTES, EUS, resection and cooperative-surgery sessions.

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2013

SGI 2013 · programme

Programme of the 7th Meeting of the Society of Gastrointestinal Intervention, one of the international meetings attended by the team.

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2013

Special Lectures and Discussion Forum

Programme for the Barcelona forum on endoluminal resections, techniques, indications and limits.

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