Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy for High-Risk Patients in a Monocentric Series: Long-Term Outcomes and Predictors of Success.

Background: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) has gained popularity as a stand-alone bariatric procedure, but only a few reports provide data of long-term outcomes on high-risk patients.

Objective: To evaluate long-term efficacy of LSG as a definitive management on high-risk obese patients and to study factors that predict its success.

Setting: University hospital in Spain.

An assessment of bacterial overgrowth and translocation in the non-alcoholic fatty liver of patients with morbid obesity.

Background: small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) and bacterial translocation across the intestinal wall have been allegedly associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFL). Our goal was to study such alleged association in morbidly obese patients.

Patients And Methods: patients with morbid obesity were consecutively included prior to bariatric surgery.

Extended use of bemiparin as thromboprophylaxis during bariatric surgery: results of anti-factor Xa activity measurements.

Background: The incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in morbidly obese patients after obesity surgery is between .2% and 3.5%.