Obesity Surgery

Mounting the Worldwide Effort Against Obesity

Mervyn Deitel

The Future of Bariatric Surgery

Henry Buchwald

Radiological Diagnosis of Internal Hernia after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

Alexander Onopchenko

Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy is Superior to Endoscopic Intragastric Balloon as a First Stage Procedure for Super-Obese Patients (BMI ≥50)

Luca Milone, Vivian Strong, Michel Gagner

Association of Super-Super-Obesity and Male Gender with Elevated Mortality in Patients Undergoing the Duodenal Switch Procedure

Rafael M Fazylov, Richard H Savel, Joel H Horovitz, Murali K Pagala, Gene F Coppa, Jeffrey Nicastro, Richard S Lazzaro, Jerzy M Macura

Permeability of the Silicone Membrane in Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Bands has Important Clinical Implications

John B Dixon, Paul E O'Brien

Results of Lap Rebanding Procedures after Lap-Band® Removal for Band Erosion – A Mid-Term Evaluation

Erik Niville, Anne Dams, Kurt Van Der Speeten, Hans Verhelst

Clinical and Radiological Follow-up of Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Bands, 1998 and 2000: A Comparison of Two Techniques

George A Fielding, Jennifer E Duncombe

Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding: Weight Loss, Co-morbidities, Medication Usage and Quality of Life at One Year

Jessie H Ahroni, Kevin F Montgomery, Brad M Watkins

Short-term Results of Laparoscopic Mini-Gastric Bypass

Weu Wang, Po-Li Wei, Yi-Chih Lee, Ming-Te Huang, Chong-Chi Chiu, Wei-Jei Lee

Impedance Cardiography: Noninvasive Assessment of Hemodynamics and Thoracic Fluid Content During Bariatric Surgery

Abdelazeem El-Dawlatly, Emad Mansour, Ahmad A Al-Shaer, Abdullah Al-Dohayan, Abdulhamid Samarkandi, Amal Abdulkarim, Hassan Alshehri, Awatif Faden

Limitations of Impedance Cardiography

D P Bernstein, H J M Lemmens, J B Brodsky

Hepatic Histopathology of Patients with Morbid Obesity Submitted to Gastric Bypass

Maria Luiza Rodrigues Pereira Lima, Samuel Conrado Oliveira Mourão, Marco Túlio Costa Diniz, Virginia Hora Rios Leite

Morbid Obesity, Hypertensive Disease and the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone Axis

M Ruano, V Silvestre, R Castro, M C G García-Lescún, A Rodríguez, A Marco, G García-Blanch

Psychiatric Symptoms among Prospective Bariatric Surgery Patients: Rates of Prevalence and their Relation to Social Desirability, Pursuit of Surgery, and Follow-Up Attendance

Christopher H Rosik

The Influence of Eating Behavior and Eating Pathology on Weight Loss after Gastric Restriction Operations

Ramona Burgmer, Katrin Grigutsch, Stefan Zipfel, Anna Maria Wolf, Martina de Zwaan, Bernhard Husemann, Christina Albus, Wolfgang Senf, Stephan Herpertz

Changes in Insulin Resistance Following Bariatric Surgery and the Adipoinsular Axis: Role of the Adipocytokines, Leptin, Adiponectin and Resistin

Garth H Ballantyne, Andrew Gumbs, Irvin M Modlin

"Right-Angled" Stapled Latero-lateral Duodenojejunal Anastomosis in the Duodenal Switch

Andrés Sánchez-Pernaute, Elia Pérez-Aguirre, Luis Díez-Valladares, Alvaro Robin, Pablo Talavera, Miguel Angel Rubio, Antonio Torres García

Intestinal Malrotation in a Patient Undergoing Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass

Karen E Gibbs, Glenn J Forrester, Pratibha Vemulapalli, Julio Teixeira

Mirtazapine (Remeron™) as Treatment for Non-Mechanical Vomiting after Gastric Bypass

Fabio V Teixeira, Tânia M S Novaretti, Benedito Pilon, Priscila G Pereira, Maria Fernanda C L Breda

Complete Regression of Barrett's Esophagus after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

Fred Cobey, Brant Oelschlager

Obesity and Symptomatic Achalasia

Fernando Augusto Mardiros Herbella, Jacques Matone, Laércio Gomes Lourenço, Jose Carlos Del Grande

Tachyarrhythmia due to Atrial Fibrillation in an Intragastric Balloon Carrier: Coincidence or Consequence?

Francesco Puglisi, Palma Capuano, Nicola Veneziani, Pierluigi Lobascio, Angela D Di Franco, Giuseppe Lograno, Onofrio Caputi Iambrenghi

Drain Erosion and Gastro-Jejunal Fistula after One-Anastomosis Gastric Bypass: Endoscopic Occlusion by Fibrin Sealant

Manuel Garcia-Caballero, Miguel Carbajo, José Manuel Martinez-Moreno, Manuel Sarria, Diego Osorio, Jose-Antonio Carmona

Abstracts From the First Latin-American Symposium of IFSO, Held in Iguassu Falls, Brazil, March 8-12, 2005