Current management of esophageal carcinoma (EC) involves combining different modalities, offering the opportunity of personalized strategies. This is particularly enticing in the geriatric population, where tailoring treatment modalities remains key to achieve good outcomes in terms of both quality of life and survival. Primary outcomes of our review included (1) evidence on short-term outcomes following esophagectomy, and (2) evidence on long-term outcomes following esophagectomy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of life (QoL), early post-operative complications, and hernia recurrence rate following laparoscopic enhanced-view Totally Extra-Peritoneal (eTEP) Rives-Stoppa (RS) for incisional and primary ventral hernia repair. Retrospective review of a prospectively maintained database of all patients undergoing eTEP-RS between 2017 and 2020. Data retrieved included demographics, and clinical and operative variables.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Bariatric surgery (BS) is the optimal approach for sustained weight loss and may alter donation candidacy in potential donors with obesity. We evaluated the long-term effects of nephrectomy after BS on metabolic profile, including body mass index, serum lipids and diabetes, and kidney function of donors.
Methods: This was a single-center retrospective study.
Purpose: Assess the subjective impact of gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) symptoms on patients undergoing revision from laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) to one-anastomosis gastric bypass (OAGB) using the Reflux Disease Questionnaire for GERD (RDQ) and the GERD-health related quality of life score (GERD-HRQL), prior to- and following conversion.
Methods: Patients undergoing revision from LSG to OAGB were prospectively followed between May 2015 and December 2020. Data retrieved included demographics, anthropometrics, previous bariatric history, time interval between LSG and OAGB, weight loss, and co-morbidities.
Bariatric surgery is an effective tool for weight loss in the obese population, improving and often resolving related co-morbidities such as diabetes and hypertension, reducing overall morbidity and mortality. However, many patients suffer from excess and redundant skin in many areas of their body. Skin excess can cause physical, functional, psychological and aesthetic impairments such as fungal infections and skin rashes, difficulty maintaining personal hygiene, low self-esteem and self-image, social isolation, depression and low quality of life.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Incarcerated and strangulated hernias are a common clinical presentation encompassing several challenges in acute care surgery. The role of laparoscopy is still controversial and the data is scarce. Laparoscopy enables better evaluation of the incarcerated organ and its viability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Accurate early diagnosis of a gastrointestinal anastomotic leak remains a challenge. When an anastomotic leak develops, the electrical properties of the tissue undergoing inflammatory processes change, resulting from the extravasation of inflammatory fluid and cellular infiltration. The method described here intends to provide a novel early anastomotic leak warning system based upon measurable changes in tissue impedance nearby an acute inflammatory process.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Staple-line leaks (SLL) after sleeve gastrectomy (SG) are a rare but serious complication requiring radiologic and endoscopic interventions with varying degrees of success. When failed, a chronic gastrocutaneous fistula forms with decreasing chances of closure with time. Definitive surgical management of chronic SLL after SG include laparoscopic revision to total/subtotal gastrectomy (LTG/LSTG) or a fistulo-jejunostomy (LRYFJ), both with Roux-en-Y reconstruction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The surgical risk of morbidly obese patients is high and even higher for kidney transplant candidates. A BMI > 35-40 kg/m is often a contraindication for that surgery. The safety, feasibility, and outcome of bariatric surgery for those patients are inconclusive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Data on the benefits of bariatric surgery for morbid obesity among kidney transplant recipients are scarce.
Objective: To examine the effect of bariatric surgery on graft function and survival and on obesity-related co-morbidities.
Setting: University hospital.
The surgical risk of transplanted patients is high, and the modified gastrointestinal anatomy after bariatric surgery (BS) may lead to pharmacokinetic alterations in the absorption of immunosuppressive drugs. Data on outcomes of BS and the safety and feasibility of maintaining immunosuppression and graft safety among solid organ transplanted patients are scarce. In the current study, weight loss, improvement in comorbidities, and changes in dosage and trough levels of immunosuppression drugs before and after BS were analyzed for all transplanted patients who underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) or laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) in our institution between November 2011 and January 2017.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Gastroesophageal reflux disease and inadequate weight loss (IWL) are long-term complications of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) and indications for a laparoscopic conversion to an alternative bariatric procedure. The aim of this study is to report the long-term outcomes of biliopancreatic diversion with a duodenal switch (DS) or a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) as conversion procedures for weight loss failure after LSG.
Methods: The data of all patients who underwent post-LSG conversion to either a RYGB or a DS at our institution between November 2006 and May 2016 was retrospectively analyzed.
Background: The Silastic ring vertical gastroplasty (SRVG), a newer modification of Mason's vertical banded gastroplasty (VBG), was the restrictive procedure of choice for many bariatric surgeons before the advent of the laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding. However, a high rate of reoperations for failure and severe complications was reported in long-term studies. Around 50% of the patients underwent conversion to other bariatric procedures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Failed sleeve gastrectomy (SG), defined by inadequate weight loss or weight regain, can be treated by a laparoscopic conversion to a biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch (DS) or a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB). We report the outcomes of these procedures after SG failure.
Methods: All patients who underwent DS (n=9) or RYGB (n=10) due to inadequate weight loss or weight regain between December 2006 and November 2012 after a failed SG were enrolled.
Introduction: Surgical antibiotic prophylaxis (AP) guidelines balance the need to prevent infection with the risks of adverse drug effects. Our aim was to assess compliance with AP guidelines.
Methods: A retrospective study was performed in a pediatric medical center.