Publications by authors named "Luciana El-Kadre"
The association of a bariatric operation during liver transplantation may benefit patients with liver failure and obesity and sleeve gastrectomy emerges as the procedure of choice. The aim of this study is to present our experience with combined liver transplantation and sleeve gastrectomy. During an 18-month period, seven patients were submitted to simultaneous liver transplant and sleeve gastrectomy (LTSG).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, in order to protect the patient and to save hospital beds, cancelation of elective surgeries has become a great challenge. Considering that obesity is a chronic disease and the possible effect imposed by quarantine on weight gain with worsening rates of obesity and metabolic comorbidities, the creation of a protocol for a safe return to bariatric surgery became essential.
Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the incidence of new-onset severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) symptoms in patients who underwent bariatric procedures during the declining curve period.
Background: One Anastomosis/Mini Gastric Bypass (OAGB-MGB) is rapidly gaining popularity and is now the third common bariatric procedure performed in the world. The aim of this review is to look at the role of this operation as a revisional bariatric surgery (RBS).
Methods: Literature review was performed following PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) and the AMSTAR (Assessing the methodological quality of systematic reviews) guidelines.
Interleukin-6 and obesity: the crosstalk between intestine, pancreas and liver.
Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care
September 2013
Purpose Of Review: The concept of IL-6 as a deleterious interleukin was challenged by its anti-inflammatory actions.
Recent Findings: The beneficial health effects of exercise and the crosstalk between insulin-sensitive tissues and insulin-producing cells are mediated by IL-6.
Summary: IL-6 displays pleiotropic functions in a tissue-specific and physiological context-dependent manner.
Background: Surgical treatment of morbid obesity with laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) is technically challenging and involves high-risk patients. In this study, the short-term outcome of LRYGB in a large population of patients has been evaluated, and morbimortality before and after overcoming the learning curve has been assessed. The objective of this study was to establish the learning curve for laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Standard surgical procedures used for the treatment of morbid obesity constitute optional treatments for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The aim of the present study was to evaluate the short- and mid-term effects of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (SG) with ileal interposition (II) in T2DM patients (n = 30).
Methods: The variables investigated were the feasibility of the procedure, remission/alleviation of the disease, morbidity, mortality, and weight loss.
Background: Surgery in gastric cancer (GC) aims to achieve resection of the primary tumor and its lymphatic drain, with a minimal adverse effect on morbidity and mortality, and the best possible quality of life.
Methods: From June 1993 to May 2008, 113 patients with a preoperative diagnosis of the GC were considered for laparoscopic gastrectomy at our institution. There was a predominance of males and mean age was 60 years.
Objective: To describe the technique of laparoscopic common bile duct exploration (LCBDE) with high clearance rates, low morbidity, and mortality rates.
Summary Background Data: LCBDE is well accepted by patients because treatment is obtained during the same anesthesia. If one stage therapy for gallstones and common bile duct stones provides success rates equivalent to those of the sequential approach, with lower costs, this should be considered the standard of care.
Background: The laparoscopic transhiatal esophagectomy for benign or malignant disease is a complex operation associated with a high rate of morbidity and mortality. In the last decade this procedure gained popularity and acceptance for treatment of the esophagus cancer and other benign diseases.
Aim: To perform a retrospective analysis in patients with esophageal cancer that was underwent a laparoscopic transhiatal esophagectomy, demonstrated pre and post operative complications and immediate result.
Background: Laparoscopic transhiatal esophagectomy, indicated for benign and malignant esophageal diseases, is a complex operation, often associated with a high rate of morbidity and mortality. During the past decade this technique has became well accepted among specialized surgeons for the treatment of esophageal cancer, avoiding thoracotomy and reducing open access complications. The aim of the present study was to retrospectively analyze patients with esophageal cancer who underwent laparoscopic transhiatal esophagectomy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The authors evaluated calcium metabolism in obese women, before and after menopause, at baseline and at 6 and 12 months after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGBP). LRYGBP restricts food intake and produces physiological changes that may be similar to those after high Billroth II subtotal gastrectomy.
Methods: Serum calcium (Ca), phosphate, bone-specific alkaline phosphatase (BSAP) and 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25-OH D) were measured at baseline and 12 months after LRYGBP.