Johns Hopkins Medicine: Aspiration Therapy

There are a lot of ideas across the medical community on how to curb the obesity epidemic. Non-surgical control of weight is making great strides.
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Patients undergoing intragastric balloon achieve approximately 50% of their target weight loss in the first month postoperatively: an MBSAQIP analysis June 15, 2019

Intragastric balloon (IGB) placement can provide a mean percent total weight loss (%TWL) of 10.2% at 6-month follow-up.

Priscila R. Armijo, Bhavani Pokala, Laura Flores, Melissa A. Leon, Dmitry Oleynikov, Vishal Kothari

Comment On: Gastro-esophageal reflux related physiological changes following sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: A prospective comparative study June 12, 2019

I would like to congratulate the authors on a very well written and well-designed study.i I believe the question that is being asked and subsequently answered in this paper is of paramount importance. Over the last several years there has been a paucity of data that is contradictory in the area of reflux after sleeve […]

Richard M. Peterson

]Liver transplantation for bariatric surgery-related liver failure: A systematic review of a rare condition June 11, 2019

Protein malnutrition and bacterial overgrowth occurring after bariatric surgery (BS) might cause severe liver failure (LF) needing liver transplantation (LT).

Pietro Addeo, Manuela Cesaretti, Rodolphe Anty, Antonio Iannelli

Clinical outcome of patients undergoing abdominoplasty after massive weight loss June 11, 2019

Abdominoplasty is one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures in patients who have undergone massive weight loss to reshape the body contour.

Pauline Hunecke, Marianne Toll, Oliver Mann, Jakob Robert Izbicki, Marco Blessmann, Katharina Grupp

Severe Obesity and Vitamin D Deficiency Treatment Options before the Bariatric Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial June 11, 2019

Obesity is an epidemic issue worldwide which has various complications and comorbidities. Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) is a well-known metabolic disorder among patients with severe obesity. While they are good candidates for bariatric surgery, this deficiency can affect the outcomes of surgery negatively.

Masoud Sayadi Shahraki, Noushin Khalili, Shadi Yousefvand, Erfan Sheikhbahaei, Shahab Shahabi Shahmiri

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