California woman’s 100-pound weight loss necessitates second surgery

A gastric procedure left Dina Miller in need of another operation.

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Bariatric Surgery in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices: A Safe and Effective Method of Weight Loss as a Gateway to Heart Transplantation August 14, 2019

Academic Hospital

Ariela Zenilman, David Pechman, Erin Moran-Atkin, Jenny Choi, Diego Camacho

Comment On: Bariatric Surgery Outcomes In Patients On Home Oxygen Therapy: An Analysis Of The Mbsaqip Database August 13, 2019

The Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP), now about five years old, has a database with a Public Use File (PUF), available to registered accredited centers, dating from 2015. This dataset is providing a wealth of information on bariatric surgical populations and their outcomes in these nationally-accredited centers. The first such […]

Ann M. Rogers

Endoscopic Septotomy & Dilation of Chronic Sleeve Gastrectomy Leak August 13, 2019

This video case report describes the management strategy used for an acute, sleeve leak which progressed to a chronic sleeve leak, culminating with successful endoscopic septotomy and dilation.A 52-year-old female with a body mass index of 43 underwent a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy at an outside facility which was complicated by leak; she underwent diagnostic laparoscopy […]

Fazi Julian, Nasr John, Szoka Nova

Laparoscopic Repair of Diaphragmatic Hernia with Mesh Following Sleeve Gastrectomy August 13, 2019

The patient is a 46-year-old female with a history of morbid obesity, status post laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy at an outside institution, complicated by a left diaphragmatic thermal injury. On review of the sleeve gastrectomy operative dictation, an approximately 3 cm defect was incidentally made in the left diaphragm by a harmonic scalpel, which was repaired […]

Fady Paul Marji, Eugene Wang, Ivanesa Pardo

Effect of the closure of mesenteric defects in Laparoscopic Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass. A Prospective Study August 13, 2019

Internal hernias (IH) are a recognized problem in laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) that can cause intestinal obstruction. The routine closure of the mesenteric defects (MDs) in the LRYGB remains controversial to prevent IH.

Jorge Saba Samur, Magdalena Bravo Hurtado, Alberto Pérez-Castilla, Eugenio Rivas Zapata, Roberto Fernández Rodriguez, Jorge Zajjur Castro

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