March 2018 – Bariatric News

A drug-free approach might be the best treatment we have for America’s most ubiquitous lifestyle disease.

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One-year follow-up of a dissonance-based intervention on quality of life, wellbeing and physical activity after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass surgery: a randomized controlled trial July 11, 2019

Health related quality of life (HRQoL) peaks around one year after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) surgery and thereafter, in many patients, slowly deteriorates.

Fanny Sellberg, Sofie Possmark, Mikaela Willmer, Per Tynelius, Daniel Berglind

A Modified Inpatient Eating Disorders Treatment Protocol for Post-Bariatric Surgery Patients: Patient Characteristics and Treatment Response July 10, 2019

Bariatric surgery is currently the most effective treatment for obesity. However, outcomes vary and disordered eating may persist or emerge post-surgically. Severe post-surgical eating disorders may require inpatient treatment, and guidelines for the modification of inpatient nutritional treatment protocols for this population are lacking.

C.C. Schreyer, A.S. Guarda, A. Pletch, G.W. Redgrave, J.K. Salwen-Deremer, J.W. Coughlin

Dysphagia predicts greater weight regain after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: A Longitudinal Case-Matched Study July 9, 2019

Weight regain (WR) following gastric bypass is thought to be multifactorial in etiology with behavioral, neurohormonal, and anatomic features playing a role. A significant proportion of patients complain of dysphagia following Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB), and may have difficulty tolerating solid foods. Our observations suggest that this subgroup of patients compensate for esophageal symptoms by […]

Thomas Runge, Pichamol Jirapinyo, Walter W. Chan, Christopher C. Thompson

Does pregnancy increase the risk of cholecystectomy following bariatric surgery? - A cross-sectional cohort study July 9, 2019

Reproductive-aged women constitute a substantial proportion of patients who undergo weight-loss procedures. While the risk of gallstone disease following such procedures has been addressed extensively; the impact of pregnancy on gallstone disease following bariatric procedures has not been reported.

Amihai Rottenstreich, Geffen Kleinstern, Gabriel Levin, Yoav Mintz, Uriel Elchalal, Ram Elazary

Enhanced Recovery After Bariatric Surgery (ERABS) in a high volume bariatric center. July 9, 2019

Obesity is an endemic disease especially in Western countries and despite efforts in prevention, prevalence appears to be continuously increasing (1). Bariatric surgery is recognized as the only effective treatment for severe obesity with durably long-term results (2).

Manuela Trotta, Chiara Ferrari, Gabriele D’Alessandro, Giuseppe Sarra, Giovanni Piscitelli, Giuseppe Maria Marinari

Month: March 2018

4 reasons you’re always hungry

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