BACKGROUND Bariatric surgery is an effective treatment to obtain weight loss in severely obese patients. The feasibility and safety of bariatric robotic surgery is the topic of this review. METHODS A search was performed on PubMed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, BioMed Central, and Web of Science. RESULTS Twenty-two studies were included. Anastomotic leak rate was 8.51% in ...

Total gastrectomy is one of the most common operative procedures for gastric malignancy, but therecommended method of gastrointestinal reconstruction after gastrectomy is still controversial. Significantweight loss has been noted by many observers following gastrectomy. The Roux-en-Y method is the mostfrequent reconstructive technique performed after gastrectomy. This technique is easy to perfo...

PURPOSE Intracorporeal anastomosis is the most difficult procedure during pure single-incision distal gastrectomy (SIDG) that affects its generalization. We introduced unaided delta-shaped anastomosis (uDelta), a novel anastomosis technique, for gastroduodenostomy after pure SIDG, and compared the results with those of previously reported Roux-en-Y anastomosis (RY). MATERIALS AND METHODS Betw...

The Bouc-Wen hysteresis model is widely employed to mathematically represent the dynamical behavior of several physical devices, materials and systems such as magnetorheological dampers, lanthanide zirconium or aluminum oxides, mechanical structures or biomedical systems. However, these mathematical models must account for different properties such as the bounded-input bounded-output stability,...

THIRTY years ago zoologists were mainly occupied with that comparative description of development which had aroused intense interest owing to the overwhelming stimulus of the theory of evolution. The analogy of the developing egg and the developing species from a single undifferentiated cell to a differentiated mass of cells was regarded as an even stronger support to that theory than the direc...

1 Centre de Recherche, Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, QC, Canada 2 Centre d’Études Avancées en Médicine du Sommeil, Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal, QC, Canada 3 Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, QC, Canada 4 Movement Disorders Unit, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada 5 Unité des Troubles du Mouvement André Barbeau, Cent...

1 Investigadores de la Dirección de Investigaciones Epidemiológicas y Psicosociales del Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz. 2 Directora General del Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz. 3 Subdirector de Evaluación de Servicios no Personales de la Salud de la Dirección General de Evaluación del Desempeño de la Secretaría de Salud. 4 Directora de Inve...

La mise en œuvre effective de méthodes de vérification de programmes comportant des calculs sur les nombres à virgule flottante reste encore problématique. Cela est en partie dû aux difficultés inhérentes à l’arithmétique des nombres à virgule flottante dont la pauvreté des propriétés rend souvent impossible la transposition de résultats établis sur les réels. C’est pourquoi nous présentons dan...

Current videoconferencing technology has allowed for the development, acceptance and growth of telepsychiatry programs in Canada and in other countries. Questions and concerns remain about the effect of the videoconferencing context on doctor–patient communication. This paper briefly reviews factors relevant to this issue and presents two case histories that involve challenges for both telepsyc...