The intraluminal administration of indocyanine green as a method of intraoperative diagnostics of machine suture incompetence in experimental cases of longitudinal gastric resection

BACKGROUND: Bariatric surgery represents an actively developing surgery field. With this, thanks to using modern automated methods of dissecting and suturing the tissues, a significant decrease is observed in the number of postoperative complications. At the same time, the problem of surgical suture incompetence remains topical even at the present times. The traditional methods of intraoperative diagnostics of incompetence are the provocative tests: the methylene blue test and the air leak test. One of the promising methods for intraoperative control during surgery is the use of fluorescent visualization in the near infrared range using the indocyanine green (ICG).