Change in Birth Rate Before and After Bariatric Surgery in France.

Importance: Bariatric surgery worldwide has grown significantly over the past years and is performed, in a vast majority, in women of childbearing age. The impact of these procedures on birth rates remains largely unknown.

Objective: The main objective was to study the evolution of the birth rates in these women, before and after bariatric surgery and in comparison with women from the general population.

Delayed retroperitoneal liposarcoma diagnosis and management in a patient with massive obesity.

People suffering from extreme obesity may be exposed to delayed diagnosis and treatment of cancer. A 37-year-old woman (weight = 245 kg, body mass index (BMI) = 79 kg/m), presented a sepsis associated with nonspecific abdominal pain for 4 months. After several unsuccessful attempts due to her weight and a large waist circumference, abdominal CT scan was finally successfully performed and showed a large retroperitoneal mass.

[Nutritional Management of Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)].

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is strongly associated with obesity and insulin resistance. There is currently no pharmacological treatment validated in steatosis. The combination of weight loss and adequate physical activity can improve liver steatosis.

Impact of Oral Immunonutrition on Postoperative Morbidity in Digestive Oncologic Surgery: A Nation-wide Cohort Study.

Objective: The objective of the present study was to assess the effect of preoperative immunonutrition on a nationwide scale.

Background: According to international guidelines, immunonutrition should be prescribed before major oncologic digestive surgery to decrease postoperative morbidity. Nevertheless, this practice remains controversial.

A 78-Year-Old Man With Historical Goiter.

The purpose of this paper is to provide description of the natural evolution of an initially operable goitre into unmesurable form in a context of deeply unknown psychiatric disorders initially unknown.

Uptake in the pancreatic uncinate process on the 111In-octreotide scintigraphy: How to distinguish physiological from pathological uptake?

Background: The aim of this study was to assess the relevance of physiological In-octreotide uptake in the head of pancreas and to establish its imaging features in comparison with pathological uptake in patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NET).

Patients And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed all patients that underwent In-octreotide single-photon emission tomography (SPECT) scintigraphy in our institution. Only patients with an isolated uptake in the head of the pancreas were included.