Issue 5/2008
Content (27 Articles)
The First International Consensus Summit for Sleeve Gastrectomy (SG), New York City, October 25–27, 2007
Mervyn Deitel, Ross D. Crosby, Michel Gagner
The Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Postoperative Mortality from Critical Illness
Fredric M. Pieracci, Lynn Hydo, Alfons Pomp, Soumitra R. Eachempati, Jian Shou, Philip S. Barie
Preoperative Weight Loss Decreases the Operative Time of Gastric Bypass at a Veterans Administration Hospital
Sergio Huerta, Serag Dredar, Elizabeth Hayden, Ali A. Siddiqui, Thomas Anthony, Massimo Asolati, J. Esteban Varela, Edward H. Livingston
Laparoscopic Totally Stapled Entero-Enterostomy: A Safe and Reproducible New Technique
M. Lannoo, B. Smet, M. Miserez, F. Penninckx, A. D’Hoore
Physical Activity Predicts Weight Loss Following Gastric Bypass Surgery: Findings from a Support Group Survey
Garry Welch, Cheryl Wesolowski, Bernadette Piepul, Jay Kuhn, John Romanelli, Jane Garb
Early Experience with Intraluminal Reinforcement of Stapled Gastrojejunostomy During Laparoscopic Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass
Alan A. Saber, Keith R. Scharf, Ali Z. Turk, Mohamed H. Elgamal, Ruvie L. M. C. Martinez
Seven Cases of Gastric Perforation in Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Patients: What Lessons Can We Learn?
Kent C. Sasse, John Ganser, Mark Kozar, Robert W. Watson, Laurie McGinley, Dionne Lim, Melissa Weede, Curtis J. Smith, Vicki Bovee
Almost Routine Prophylactic Cholecystectomy During Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass is Safe
A. Nougou, M. Suter
Pregnancy Following Gastric Bypass Surgery for Morbid Obesity: Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes
Joseph R. Wax, Angelina Cartin, Renee Wolff, Sharon Lepich, Michael G. Pinette, Jacquelyn Blackstone
Monitored Anesthesia Care with Propofol Versus Surgeon-Monitored Sedation with Benzodiazepines and Narcotics for Preoperative Endoscopy in the Morbidly Obese
Atul K. Madan, David S. Tichansky, Johnathan Isom, Gayle Minard, Tiffany K. Bee
Compensatory Exercise Hyperventilation is Restored in the Morbidly Obese After Bariatric Surgery
Gerald S. Zavorsky, Do Jun Kim, Nicolas V. Christou
A Prospective Multicenter Study of 163 Sleeve Gastrectomies: Results at 1 and 2 Years
D. Nocca, D. Krawczykowsky, B. Bomans, P. Noël, M. C. Picot, P. M. Blanc, C. de Seguin de Hons, B. Millat, M. Gagner, L. Monnier, J. M. Fabre
Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy as an Alternative to Gastric Bypass in Patients with Multiple Intraabdominal Adhesions
Bernabé Matías Quesada, Hernán Eduardo Roff, Gustavo Kohan, Alejandro Salvador Oría, Luis Tomás Chiappetta Porras
Preliminary Results of the Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding Procedure by a New Generation of Silicone Band: MIDBAND
P. M. Blanc, J. M. Lagoutte, M. C. Picot, E. Denève, C. de Seguin, J. M. Fabre, D. Nocca
Ten Years Experience with Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding
Jean Biagini, Lamisse Karam
Preoperative Upper Gastrointestinal Testing Can Help Predicting Long-term Outcome After Gastric Banding for Morbid Obesity
Michel Suter, Vittorio Giusti, Jean-Marie Calmes, Alexandre Paroz
Crural Repair Permits Morbidly Obese Patients with Not Large Hiatal Hernia to Choose Laparoscopic Adjustable Banding as a Bariatric Surgical Treatment
Eldo E. Frezza, Audrae Barton, Mitchell S. Wachtel
Clinical Characteristics and Outcome of Morbidly Obese Bariatric Patients with Concurrent Hepatitis B Viral Infection
Wei-Jei Lee, Weu Wang, Yi-Chih Lee, Ming-Te Huang
Influence of High BMI on Functional Outcome After Total Hip Arthroplasty
André Busato, Christoph Röder, Sylvia Herren, Stefan Eggli
Remission of Metabolic Syndrome: A Study of 140 Patients Six Months after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
Marçal Rossi, Renato Barretto Ferreira da Silva, Geraldo Chaves Alcântara Jr, Paulo Fernando Regina, Felipe Martin Bianco Rossi, Ary Serpa Neto, Ethel Zimberg Chehter
Advances in Circular Stapling Technique for Gastric Bypass: Transoral Placement of the Anvil
Ninh T. Nguyen, Marcelo W. Hinojosa, Brian R. Smith, Kevin M. Reavis, Samuel E. Wilson
Experience with the Duodenal Switch Operation in the Presence of Intestinal Malrotation
Varun Puri, Jyoti Ramachandran, Ranjan Sudan
Functional Aspects of the Esophagus Should be Taken Into Account When Choosing an Individualized Restrictive Bariatric Procedure
Helmut Weiss, Alexander Klaus, Heinz Wykypiel
Latin American Chapter of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity (IFSO-LA)
Arthur B. Garrido Jr