Obesity Surgery

Program: 11th World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity

Abstracts of Oral Presentations, 11th World Congress of IFSO, Sydney, Australia

Abstracts of Posters, 11th World Congress of IFSO, Sydney, Australia

Systematic Review of Medium-Term Weight Loss after Bariatric Operations

Paul E O'Brien, Tracey McPhail, Timothy B Chaston, John B Dixon

Comparison of Nutritional Consequences of Conventional Therapy of Obesity, Adjustable Gastric Banding, and Gastric Bypass

Séverine Ledoux, Simon Msika, Fathi Moussa, Etienne Larger, Philippe Boudou, Laurence Salomon, Carine Roy, Christine Clerici

Fatal Complications of Bariatric Surgery

Lara B Goldfeder, Christine J Ren, James R Gill

Impact of Gastric Banding on Plasma Adiponectin Levels

Dror Diker, Tali Vishne, Rachel Maayan, Abraham Weizman, Pnina Vardi, Zeev Dreznik, Dan Seror, Edward Ram

Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding in Adolescents: The Austrian Experience

Gerd R Silberhumer, Karl Miller, Stefan Kriwanek, Kurt Widhalm, Antonia Pump, Gerhard Prager

High Ghrelin Concentration is Not a Predictor of Less Weight Loss in Morbidly Obese Women Treated with Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding

Luca Busetto, Gianni Segato, Maurizio De Luca, Mirto Foletto, Sabrina Pigozzo, Franco Favretti, Giuliano Enzi

Effects of Laparoscopic Pneumoperitoneum and Changes in Position on Arterial Pulse Pressure Wave-Form: Comparison Between Morbidly Obese and Normal-Weight Patients

Thierry Guenoun, Emma Joelle Aka, Didier Journois, Hervé Philippe, Jean-Marc Chevallier, Denis Safran

Total Gastrectomy for Complications of the Duodenal Switch, with Reversal

Carlos Serra, Aniceto Baltasar, Nieves Pérez, Rafael Bou, Marcelo Bengochea

Assessing Sexual Function in Obese Women Preparing for Bariatric Surgery

Konstantinos Assimakopoulos, Spiros Panayiotopoulos, Gregoris Iconomou, Katerina Karaivazoglou, Charalambos Matzaroglou, Konstantinos Vagenas, Fotis Kalfarentzos

Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy for a Super-Super-Obese Patient with Situs Inversus Totalis

Jean Marc Catheline, Caroline Rosales, Régis Cohen, Hélène Bihan, Jean Luc Fournier, Joël Roussel, Joseph Bénichou

Pulmonary Embolus after Retrieval of a Temporary Inferior Vena Caval Filter in a Jehovah's Witness Undergoing Gastric Bypass Surgery

Judith C Hagedorn, John M Morton

Retrograde Intussusception following Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

Kyle Ver Steeg

Gastric Bypass in a Factor V Deficient Patient

Syed Husain, Naveen Ballem, Howard L Beaton

Gastric Bypass Surgery in a Paraplegic Morbidly Obese Patient

Diya I Alaedeen, John Jasper

Early Gastric Cancer found at Preoperative Assessment for Bariatric Surgery

Gustavo Sevá-Pereira, Vilmar Luis Trombeta

Obesity in the Neolithic Era: A Greek Female Figurine

Helen Christopoulou-Aletra, Niki Papavramidou, Paolo Pozzilli

Staplerless Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass: Not So Fast

Heitor Portella Póvoas, Marcos Leão Vilas-Bôas

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João Eduardo M T M Ettinger, Almino C Ramos, Euler Ázaro, Manoel P Galvão-Neto