Obesity and associated type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are becoming a serious medical issue worldwide. Bariatric surgery has been shown to be the most effective and durable therapy for the treatment of morbid obese patients. Increasing data indicates bariatric surgery as metabolic surgery is an effective and novel therapy for not well controlled obese T2DM patients. The review of recent develop...

Summary A retrospective study analyzed the complications in 186 patients who underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG). One hundred eighty-four were operated on at University Hospital Centre of Albacete between May 2006 and September 2022. Two with early postoperative received surgical treatment other centers. The overall complication rate (including GERD) was 13.9%. Ten (5.38%) had perio...

INTRODUCTION We present a rare case of jejunal obstruction due to the migration of a laparoscopic adjustable gastric band (LAGB) that occurred 10 years after surgery and was successfully treated by laparoscopy. This report is compliant with the SCARE guidelines. PRESENTATION OF CASE A 42-year-old woman who underwent LAGB for morbid obesity 10 years ago was admitted with a small bowel obstruct...

Overweight and obesity has increased in Sweden and in the rest of the world during the last decades, probably due to a more sedentary lifestyle and changes in diets. Body mass index (BMI) is a commonly used index of weight-for-height for classifying adult individuals. BMI is weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters (kg/m2). BMI between 18.5 and 25 is called normal weigh...

BACKGROUND Heterotopic pancreas is defined as finding of pancreatic tissue without anatomic and vascular continuity with the normal pancreas. Heterotopic pancreas is a rare condition difficult to diagnose and with controversial clinical management. CASE PRESENTATION We describe a 43 year old female patient previously submitted to laparoscopic gastric bypass for primary treatment of morbid obe...

Background: Ten-millimeter ports are often used in laparoscopic surgery. It could be difficult to close the ports sites, especially in obese patients. We described a new method to close ten-millimeter port-site wounds, effective and easily to perform. Methods: Forty cases of laparoscopic bariatric surgery were performed from April 2010 to September 2011 at IRCAD Taiwan. Among them, 30 patients ...

Obese patients often may demonstrate an acquired prolonged QTc interval due to alteration in cardiac physiology, electrolyte disturbances, and/or medication use. Intraoperatively, bariatric surgery may further contribute additional cardiac stressors to obese patients with long QT syndrome (LQTS). We present a case report of an obese woman with LQTS who underwent laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric b...

Background. Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) has been shown to be an effective treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in patients with morbid obesity. However, it is unclear just how effective the LRYGB procedure is on T2DM for patients with BMI less than 35 kg/m(2). We report one obese patient with T2DM who did not meet the current NIH criteria for morbid obesity surgery. T...

cancer of the stomach carries poor prognosis. surgery is the best treatment for gastric cancer. prediction of survival depends on the stage at the time of presentation. fluoroscopy, sonography, and computerized tomography are used for advanced gastric cancers staging, but they are not accurate enough to grade advanced gastric cancers. laparoscopic findings of lesions under direct vision, are ma...

Abstract Background: Laparoscopic One-anastomosis gastric bypass (LOAGB) has proved to be safe and effective, with short learning curve low morbidity rate. Methods: This was a prospective