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Satiety and gastrointestinal hormones during a Mixed Meal Tolerance Test after gastric bypass surgery: association with plasma amino acid concentrations, May 21, 2018

Bariatric surgery is currently the most effective treatment to achieve and maintain long term weight reduction in a morbidly obese population. It has gained high popularity, with more than half a million procedures performed worldwide in 2014 1–3. Unfortunately, the desired weight loss can be accompanied by loss of fat free mass and bone mineral […]

Merel van den Broek, Loek J.M. de Heide, Marloes Emous, Ragnhild B. Wijma, Nic J.G.M. Veeger, Albert Wolthuis, Anke J. Laskewitz, M. Rebecca Heiner-Fokkema, Anneke C. Muller Kobold, Bruce H.R. Wolffenbuttel, André P. van Beek

Changes in the lipid profile 5 years after bariatric surgery: Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass versus laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy May 19, 2018

Dyslipidemia of obesity, involving different qualitative and quantitative lipid alterations, is at least partially responsible for the high cardiovascular risk of this population.1

Climent Elisenda, Benaiges David, Juana A. Flores-Le Roux, Jose M. Ramón, Pedro-Botet Juan, Goday Albert

Comment on: Bariatric Procedures in Adolescents are Safe in Accredited Centers May 17, 2018

Within the context of recent evidence highlighting the seemingly unabated rise in childhood obesity and in particular, the alarming increase in the prevalence of severe obesity (BMI ≥ 120% of the 95th percentile or BMI ≥ 40kg.m2) within the adolescent sub-population [1], it is not surprising that the use of bariatric surgery among teens in […]

Marc P. Michalsky

Cigarette smoking and its impact on weight loss after bariatric surgery – a single center, retrospective study. May 17, 2018

Smoking and obesity are independent risk factors of cardiovascular diseases [1]. Although nicotine is a known metabolic stimulant, heavy smokers tend to have greater body weight than light or non-smokers [2]. Smoking also increases the risk of diabetes mellitus and hypertension [3]. It increases the risk of organ space infection, prolonged intubation, reintubation, pneumonia, sepsis, […]

Piotr K. Kowalewski, Robert Olszewski, Maciej S. Walędziak, Michał R. Janik, Andrzej Kwiatkowski, Krzysztof Paśnik

Comment on: Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Patients with Heart Failure and Left Ventricular Assist Devices as a Bridge to Transplant May 17, 2018

It is with great interest that I have had the privilege of reviewing and commenting on the manuscript “Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Patients with Heart Failure and Left Ventricular Assist Devices as a Bridge to Transplant” by Hawkins, et al. [1]. The authors have clearly and concisely reported the outcomes of this high risk procedure performed […]

Timothy R. Shope

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