Ricerc@Sapienza

Anastomotic leakage (AL) is one of the dreaded complications following surgery in the digestive tract. Near-infrared fluorescence (NIRF) imaging is a means to intraoperatively visualize anastomotic perfusion, facilitating fluorescence image-guided surgery (FIGS) with the purpose to reduce the incidence of AL.  Authors collect prospectively patients’ data and procedural data regarding the ICG dose, timing, and consequences of NIRF imaging among upper-GI, colorectal, and bariatric surgery.  The choice of the anastomotic level was guided by means of NIRF imaging which means that in some cases NIRF imaging changed the level of anastomosis which was first decided based on visual findings in conventional white light imaging.