Obesity Surgery

The Breadth of "Obesity"

M Deitel

Electrogastrography: The Study of Gastric Myoelectric Activity. Possible Insights into Symptoms after Restrictive Bariatric Surgery

Robert J Greenstein, Michael G Sarr

So You Think We are Bariatric Surgeons? Think Again

Walter J Pories

Obstructive Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders in Patients Evaluated for Bariatric Surgery

William C Frey, John Pilcher

The Validation of the Moorehead-Ardelt Quality of Life Questionnaire II

Melodie K Moorehead, Elisabeth Ardelt-Gattinger, Hans Lechner, Horacio E Oria

Rising Role of Obesity Surgery Caused by Increase of Morbid Obesity, Failure of Conventional Treatments and Unrealistic Expectations: Trends From 1997 to 2001

V Giusti, M Suter, E Héraïef, R C Gaillard, P Burckhardt

Effect of Abdominal Obesity on Insulin Resistance and the Components of the Metabolic Syndrome: Evidence Supporting Obesity as the Central Feature

Çavlan Türkoglu, Belgin Süsleyici Duman, Demet Günay, Penbe Çagatay, Remzi Özcan, A Sevim Büyükdevrim

Anxiety, Depression and Health-Related Quality of Life after Jejunoileal Bypass: A 25-Year Follow-up Study of 20 Female Patients

Villy Våge, Jan Helge Solhaug, Asgaut Viste, Per Bergsholm, Astrid K Wahl

Transcutaneous Electrogastrography in the Perioperative Period in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy and Laparoscopic Non-Adjustable Gastric Banding

Robert Gürlich, Pavel Maruna, Roman Frasko

Gastric Myoelectrical Activity in Morbidly Obese Patients before and 3 Months after Gastric Restrictive Surgery

F M H van Dielen, A F C de Cock, F Daams, R-JM Brummer, J W M Greve

Surgeon-Performed Endoscopic Dilatation of Symptomatic Gastrojejunal Anastomotic Strictures following Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

Robert L Bell, Kate E Reinhardt, John L Flowers

Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: Preoperative Determinants of Prolonged Operative Times, Conversion to Open Gastric Bypasses, and Postoperative Complications

Michael L Schwartz, Raymond L Drew, Marilyn Chazin-Caldie

Psychosocial Factors and 2-Year Outcome Following Bariatric Surgery for Weight Loss

Matthew M Clark, Bruno M Balsiger, Christopher D Sletten, Kristi L Dahlman, Gretchen Ames, Donald E Williams, Haitham S Abu-Lebdeh, Michael G Sarr

Psychiatric Diagnosis and Weight Loss following Gastric Surgery for Obesity

Donald W Black, Risë B Goldstein, Edward E Mason

Short-Term Liver Function after Biliopancreatic Diversion

Francesco Papadia, Giuseppe M Marinari, Giovanni Camerini, Gian Franco Adami, Federica Murelli, Flavia Carlini, Cesare Stabilini, Nicola Scopinaro

Changes In Lipid Profile after Biliopancreatic Diversion

Juan de Dios García-Díaz, Oscar Lozano, Juan Carlos Ramos, Mª Jesús Gaspar, Jerry Keller, Antonio Martín Duce

Echocardiographic and Hemodynamic Evaluation of Cardiovascular Performance during Laparoscopy of Morbidly Obese Patients

David L Prior, Juraj Sprung, James D Thomas, David G Whalley, Denis L Bourke

Helium Pneumoperitoneum Ameliorates Hypercarbia and Acidosis Associated with Carbon Dioxide Insufflation during Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass in Pigs

Matthew R Brackman, Frederick C Finelli, Timothy Light, Orlando Llorente, Kevin McGill, John Kirkpatrick

Laparoscopic Gastric Banding and Crural Repair in the Obese Patient with a Hiatal Hernia

Kevin Dolan, Robert Finch, George Fielding

Outcome after Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding, Using the Lap-Band® and the Heliogast® Band: A Prospective Randomized Study

R Blanco-Engert, S Weiner, I Pomhoff, R Matkowitz, R A Weiner

Laparoscopic Repositioning of Heliogast® Gastric Band after Anterior Slippage

Nir Wasserberg, Israel Nudelman, Zeev Fuko, Moshe Rubin

Disconnection of Port after Laparoscopic Gastric Banding: Causes and Solution

Boris Yoffe, Shimon Sapojnikov, Valery Lebedev, Carl Goldblum

A Functional Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass to Avoid Gastric Exclusion: 1-Year Results

Stefano Cariani, Giovanni Vittimberga, Sergio Grani, Andrea Lucchi, Manuela Guerra, Enrico Amenta

Successful Thrombolysis of Submassive Pulmonary Embolism after Bariatric Surgery: Expanding the Indications and Addressing the Controversies

Ravi C Pulipati, Richard S Lazzaro, Jerzy Macura, Richard H Savel

Perforation in the Bypassed Stomach following Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

Pavlos K Papasavas, Woodrow W Yeaney, Philip F Caushaj, Robert J Keenan, Rodney J Landreneau, Daniel J Gagné

Carcinoma of Esophagus after Adjustable Gastric Banding

Kylie L Snook, James D Ritchie

Gastric Bypass in a Japanese Man with Prader-Willi Syndrome and Morbid Obesity

Junji Kobayashi, Masaaki Kodama, Kazuma Yamazaki, Okamichi Morikawa, Shunichi Murano, Norifumi Kawamata, Isao Kawamura

Marcel Molina: The Loss of a Pioneer

Horacio E Oria

Obesity and Obesity Surgery in Ancient Greece

Claudio Bevegni, Gian Franco Adami

Report of Elevated Liver Enzymes as an Operative Complication of Gastric Bypass Surgery

David H Shapiro, Roy G Soto, Julie Saranita, Dan Paoli

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