BACKGROUND Obesity is a worldwide challenging health problem. Weight loss through medical management of obesity has not always been successful, thus, giving rise to the need for surgical intervention. Bariatric surgery has been shown to be helpful for morbidly obese patients. However, studies have also shown the effect of surgery on stone formation, fertility and erectile function. This review ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the rates of pregnancy outcomes of women after bariatric surgery relative to women in a control groups. METHODS The study was a chart review. Presurgery and prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) were calculated for 70 patients who had undergone bariatric surgery and who had a subsequent singleton pregnancy. Four control patients were then randomly selected for each case pat...

PURPOSE To characterize the comorbidities associated with hospitalizations for obesity and the relationship of these co-morbidities with bariatric surgery and hospitalization costs during the period between 2000 and 2010 in Sao Paulo that were financed by the Brazilian Public Health System (SUS). METHODS We used data from the Hospital Information System of the Unified Health System (SIH-SUS) ...

Bariatric Surgery inMinority Patients Before andAfter Implementation of a Centers of Excellence Program Numerous studies documenting better surgical outcomes at hospitals with higher procedure volume havemotivated proposals toconcentrateelectivesurgery inhigh-volumesettings.1 However, concerns about access to care, doubts about causality of the volume-outcomes relationship, and lack of easily i...

Abstract. Weight recidivism in bariatric surgery failure is multifactorial. It ranges from inappropriate patient selection for primary surgery to technical/anatomic issues related to the original surgery. Most bariatric surgeons and centers focus on primary bariatric surgery while weight recidivism and its complications are very much secondary concerns. Methods. We report on our initial experie...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether women who had a delivery after bariatric surgery have lower rates of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy compared with women who had a delivery before bariatric surgery. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Claims data for 2002-6 from seven insurance plans in the United States. PARTICIPANTS 585 women aged 16-45 who had undergone bariatric surgery, had ...

BACKGROUND As more patients undergo bariatric surgery to assist with weight loss, the demand for post-bariatric body contouring surgery, to address both functional and aesthetic concerns, is increasing. However, high wound healing complication rates remain a significant problem for these patients. One theory is that chronic malnourishment and hypoproteinemia may contribute significantly to thes...

Today, bariatric surgery, as the only effective therapy for morbid obesity, is expanding exponentially to meet the global epidemic of obesity. There is increasing evidence that effective long-term weight loss is achieved after bariatric surgery. A substantial majority of patients with diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea have experienced complete resolution or impr...

Bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery) includes a variety of procedures performed on people who are obese. Weight loss is achieved by reducing the size of the stomach with a gastric band or through removal of a portion of the stomach (sleeve gastrectomy or biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch) or by resecting and re-routing the small intestines to a small stomach pouch (gastric bypas...

Introduction Background: Bariatric surgery (BS) is a potential cause for malabsorption resulting in nutritional deficiency-related neuropathies and myelopathy. Citation: Ismail II, Yassin OM, Foad SS (2014) Copper deficiency myeloneuropathy mimicking subacute combined degeneration following bariatric surgery. J Neurol Neurol Disord 1(1): 104 . doi: 10.15744/24544981.1.104 Copper deficiency is a...