Cholecystokinin-58 is more potent in inhibiting food intake than cholecystokinin-8 in rats.

Introduction: Several cholecystokinin (CCK) forms have been detected in plasma, but most studies on food intake investigated the effects of CCK-8 only. Recently, it has been demonstrated that CCK-58 is the only endocrine-active form of CCK in rats.

Methods: CCK-58 was synthesized with a peptide synthesizer using FMOC chemistry and CCK-58 effects on food intake were compared to CCK-8 in rats.

Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: standardized technique of a potential stand-alone bariatric procedure in morbidly obese patients.

Background: The aim of this study was to define a standardized technique for laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in the morbidly obese patient.

Methods: There are several surgical options for the morbidy obese patient. In general, there are the restrictive procedures [e.

Successful coil embolization of a ruptured gastroduodenal artery aneurysm.

Aneurysms of the gastroduodenal artery are rare. Reported here is the case of a 60-year-old woman suffering from the covered rupturing of a twin aneurysm of the gastroduodenal artery. The patient presented herself in the surgical emergency unit with abdominal discomfort.