Bariatric surgery can give teens new life
At more than 400 pounds, Keenan Henderson knew he was overweight. But he thought bariatric surgery was too drastic a step for his age. (Source: USATODAY.com Health)
At more than 400 pounds, Keenan Henderson knew he was overweight. But he thought bariatric surgery was too drastic a step for his age. (Source: USATODAY.com Health)
Conclusion:
By laparoscopic resection of the entire gastric pouch and the gastric remnant the risk to leave a suboptimally vascularised or even ischemic pouch in situ was avoided. The esophagojejunostomy was then created in healthy, good vascularised tissue. In our case this novel approach was effective in the management of a refractory anastomotic ulcer and might represent a rescue option when simple revision of the gastrojejunostomy fails. (Source: BMC Surgery)
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory ErratumPages 1-1DOI 10.1007/s11695-011-0566-zAuthors
Davide Lomanto, Department of Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgical Centre, National University Hospital, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, 119074 Singapore, SingaporeWei-Jei Lee, Department of Surgery, Min-Sheng General Hospital, Taipei, TaiwanRajat Goel, Department of Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgical Centre, National University Hospital, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, 119074 Singapore, SingaporeJeannette Jen-Mai Lee, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yong Loo Lin, School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, SingaporeAsim Shabbir, Department of Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgical Centre, National University Hospital, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, 119074 Singapore, SingaporeJimmy …
Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care Dec 2011, Vol. 6, No. 4: 179-184. (Source: Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care)
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(Source: ANZ Journal of Surgery)
This study involved 67 patients (average age 41.0 years, 47 women, baseline body mass index [BMI] 41.5 kg/m2; 20 patients with BMI (Source: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy)
Fistulae, generally those occurring after bariatric surgery, could be treated with the use of endoclips, covered self-expandable metal stents, and glue, although these options have several limitations, with many fistula recurrences. Stent migration, inadequate closure of the leak by clipping, or difficult stent removal occurred in more than half of the cases. (Source: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy)
Minimally-invasive weight-loss procedures seem to be safer than open bariatric surgery, according to researchers who analyzed past studies comparing the two methods. Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Minimally-invasive weight-loss procedures seem to be safer than open
bariatric surgery, according to researchers who analyzed past studies comparing the two methods. (Source: Modern Medicine)
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PMID: 22206614 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher] (Source: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery)