Provides local residents with surgical treatment for common surgical diseases of digestive organs, while addressing advanced medicine in gastrointestinal and hepatocholangiopancreatic surgery.
Engaged also in the diagnosis and treatment of mammary glands, and provides surgical treatment for endocrine diseases.
Currently, three surgeons are in charge of treatment: Fukata, supervisory surgeon from the Japan Surgical Society (JSS) and the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery; Kawabata, authorized by the JSS; and Kitagawa, authorized by the JSS.
Operations performed in the elderly should consider not only short-term results such as the morbidity of postoperative complications and the length of hospital stay, but also long-term QOL (quality of life) after discharge from hospital. We are conducting research on safe operations and pre/postoperative management in the elderly in view of their postoperative QOL.
We are planning to extend the research, convey the results to clinical practice, and assess the possibility of low-invasive operations through introduction/improvement of various types of laparoscopic surgery, thus aiming to establish safer surgical treatment for the elderly.
