Hosseini, Seyed Vahid Sobhani, Zahra Al-Ganbar, Maytham Hameed
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Obesity Surgery
This is a report about a 44-year-old woman, with morbid obesity (BMI = 43) who was a candidate for bariatric surgery (BS) in Mother and Child Hospital in Shiraz, Iran. She had obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), so she refused surgery because she was afraid of getting the coronavirus. Psychiatric diagnostic interview and EyleBrown questionnaire th...
Sudlow, Alexis C. Pournaras, Dimitri J. Heneghan, Helen Bodnar, Zsolt le Roux, Carel W. McGillicuddy, Deidre
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Obesity Surgery
Background Bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment for patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2DM), inducing profound metabolic changes associated with improvements in glycaemic control. In spite of the recognition of the physiological changes associated with bariatric surgery, what remains underappreciated is the patient experience ...
Cadwell, Joshua B. Ahsanuddin, Salma Ayyala, Haripriya S. Ignatiuk, Ashley
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Obesity Surgery
Purpose With an increasing rate of obesity in the USA, bariatric surgery has become widespread, resulting in a greater number of patients seeking panniculectomy. The authors aim to determine the complication profile of panniculectomies by body mass index (BMI). Methods The 2012–2018 National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database was queried...
Chua, Marvin Wei Jie
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Obesity Surgery
Messiah, Sarah E. Uppuluri, Maduri Xie, Luyu Schellinger, Jeffrey N. Mathew, M. Sunil Ofori, Ashley Kukreja, Sachin Schneider, Benjamin Dunn, Samuel H. Tavakkoli, Anna
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Obesity Surgery
Purpose The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on behavioral issues among those who have completed bariatric surgery (BS) is not well described in ethnically diverse populations. The aim of this study was to compare the impact of COVID-19 lockdown orders and after lockdown orders were lifted on substance use, mental health, and weight-related behavior...
Poghosyan, Tigran Rives-Lange, Claire Carette, Claire Girardeau, Yannick Jannot, Anne-Sophie Czernichow, Sebastien
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Obesity Surgery
Antonsson, Tobias Wennersten, André Sörensen, Kaisa Regnér, Sara Ekelund, Mikael
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Obesity Surgery
Background Gastric bypass (GBP) is a surgical method with good evidence of sustainable weight loss, reduced obesity-related comorbidities, and improved health-related quality of life (HRQoL). However, long-term data post-GBP is scarce on HRQoL related to other factors than weight loss, such as impact of socio-economic, age, and gender. Aim To inves...
Velotti, Nunzio Vitiello, Antonio Berardi, Giovanna Musella, Mario
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Obesity Surgery
Käkelä, Pirjo Rantanen, Tuomo Virtanen, Kirsi A.
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Obesity Surgery
In this narrative review, we will appraise if modification of the length of bypassed small intestine based on measured total small intestinal length could optimize the outcomes of the laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB). We provide a summary of carefully selected studies to serve as examples and to draw tentative conclusions of the effect...
Noparatayaporn, Prapaporn Thavorncharoensap, Montarat Chaikledkaew, Usa Bagepally, Bhavani Shankara Thakkinstian, Ammarin
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Obesity Surgery
This systematic review aimed to comprehensively synthesize cost-effectiveness evidences of bariatric surgery by pooling incremental net monetary benefits (INB). Twenty-eight full economic evaluation studies comparing bariatric surgery with usual care were identified from five databases. In high-income countries (HICs), bariatric surgery was cost-ef...
