Body mass index reduction improves the baseline procoagulant imbalance of obese subjects.

Obesity is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. The latter being dependent (at least in part) on plasma procoagulant imbalance (i.e.

Treatment of band erosion: feasibility and safety of endoscopic band removal.

Background: Band erosion is reported with a highly variable incidence (0.3-14%) after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding. Removal of the band is mandatory because the patient regains weight and may become symptomatic, but no consensus exists about the best method, surgical or endoscopic, for this purpose.

Band erosion following gastric banding: how to treat it.

Background: Intragastric band migration is an unusual but major long-term complication of gastric banding: its frequency ranges from 0.5-3.8% and always requires removal of the band.

Prognostic significance of different biomarkers (DNA content, PCNA, karyotype) in colorectal adenomas.

Immunohistochemical detection of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), densitometric analysis of nuclear DNA content and fluorescence in situ hybridization with centromere-specific DNA probes to chromosomes 11 and 17 were carried out on histological sections from 55 colorectal adenomas, in order to identify those adenomas that are more likely to progress to cancer. A considerable variability of PCNA positivity (range: 23-28.2%; mean value: 12.