منابع مشابه
Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy
......................................... Received: 22-11-11 Accepted: 06-12-11 Abstract Morbid obesity is the second leading preventable cause of death after cigarette smoking in the world. It is a chronic pathology which requires interdisciplinary management in which bariatric surgery plays a fundamental part. It results in greater weight loss and better maintenance of weight loss than any ot...
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To the Editor: We read with great interest the recent publication by Zheng published in the November 2015 issue of the American Journal of Therapeutics which reports a case of Wernicke encephalopathy (WE) 7 weeks after sleeve gastrectomy (SG). The author describes a rare case of WE resulting from thiamine deficiency in a 42-year-old female patient who underwent SG. According to the article, WE ...
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Prior studies have established a 1.7-4.33% readmission rate for laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG), a rate that falls within the reported range for other bariatric procedures. The current report describes the incidence of 30-day readmission after primary LSG procedures performed at a single bariatric center of excellence (COE) and examines factors that may be associ...
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There is a bariatric explosion worldwide to deal with the rising prevalence of morbid obesity. In 1988, Hess and Hess first added the sleeve gastrectomy (SG) and the duodenal switch (DS) as a modification to the biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) to improve clinical outcomes. But the increased morbidity and mortality observed in super-super-obese patients (BMI > 60 kg/m ) who underwent BPD with DS...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2518-6973
DOI: 10.21037/ales-20-30