March 2019 – Bariatric News

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Comment on Total weight loss after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is influenced by preoperative weight loss: can we predict the outcome July 10, 2020

The authors should be congratulated for conducting a well-designed study on an important issue in the bariatric surgical practice. The authors have concluded that inadequate pre-operative weight loss in primary laparoscopic roux-en-y gastric bypass (LRYGB) patients can be useful to identify patients at risk of inadequate postoperative weight loss. This significant difference in weight loss […]

Vivek Bindal, Daksh Sethi

Comment on: METABOLIC OUTCOMES AFTER REVISIONAL BARIATRIC SURGERY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS. July 10, 2020

As the authors highlight, the rate of revisional bariatric surgery has been rising 1,2. Further analysis reveals indications for revisional surgery vary widely. There is evidence of benefit for revisional surgery but also an increased risk for complications (3). Additional understanding of criteria for best patient selection to apply additional surgical treatment with revision is […]

Teresa LaMasters

Comments on: Should bariatric surgery be offered to prisoners? July 10, 2020

Whether bariatric surgery should be offered to prisoners is inevitably a controversial topic, but it should not be. Luhrs and Giorgi have used medical, legal, and ethical principles to make a strong argument for offering bariatric surgery to prisoners [1]. The Supreme Court decision in Estelle v. Gamble (1976) articulated the constitutionally protected right of […]

Saber Ghiassi

Comment on: Mental and emotional representations of "weight loss": free-word association networks in members of bariatric surgery-related social media communities July 10, 2020

In the quest to understand the acceptance of bariatric surgery by the eligible patient population, authors explored this concept using a novel word association technique borrowed from the fields of market research and psychology (File, 2019). Free word association encourages respondents to express motivations, beliefs, attitudes, or feelings about a topic, without limiting or suggesting […]

Nina M. Crowley

Comment on: Transversus abdominis plane block using a short-acting local anesthetic in patients undergoing laparoscopic bariatric surgery: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials July 9, 2020

I commend the authors for investigating a topic that is both important and timely in the bariatric surgery population. There is increased interest in multimodal therapy to avoid opioid use postbariatric surgery as evidenced by the combined efforts of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery and the American College of Surgeons national quality […]

Teresa L. LaMasters