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	BARIATRIC SURGERY This is surgery for weight loss.Obesity has become the second biggest killer after tobacco and is fast overtaking it.The incidence of morbid obesity has doubled since the seventies.In Europe > 50% of the population is overweight.8% of total healthcare budget goes to obesity and related diseases. Read more...
	LAPAROSCOPIC INCISIONAL HERNIA REPAIR An incisional hernia is a bulge that develops at the site of a previous surgical scar. The scar which develops is weak due to technical reasons or to poor healing. The bulge will contain abdominal contents. The opening tends to be large and strangulation is not common. Read more...
	LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY The gallbladder is situated in the right upper abdomen under the liver and stores bile which is secreted into the intestinal lumen when eating.  Removal of the gallbladder is necessary when it has stones causing symptoms or if it is non functional or has a tumour.It is a very common operation but remains highly technical and can have serious sequelae if not done with due expertise. Read more...
	LAPAROSCOPIC ANTIREFLUX SURGERY AND HIATUS HERNIA REPAIR Reflux across the valve between the stomach and the oesophagus is common.The presence of a hernia through the hole in the diaphragm may make the reflux worse by weakening the valve.It may also cause symptoms of its own. Read more...
	LAPAROSCOPIC GROIN HERNIA REPAIR A groin hernia is an abnormal bulging of tissues from the abdominal cavity into the groin area via a weakness in the abdominal wall structure. Some hernias pass into the scrotum in the male or labium in the female. The bulge contains fat, intestine or fluid which slips into the hernial sack. These contents may be reduceable, irreduceable, obstructed or strangulated. Read more...
	CHRONIC CONSTIPATION AND PELVIC FLOOR DISORDERS Constipation is a common disorder affecting quality of life and may be life threatening when caused by certain conditions.It is important that these conditions of mechanical nature are excluded and that medical and medicational causes are adressed. Read more...