Sleeve gastrectomy is feasible in obese patients with phenylketonuria: A case report and literature review.

Introduction And Importance: Patients with phenylketonuria (PKU) exhibit a high incidence of obesity. Currently, bariatric surgery remains the most effective long-term treatment for obese patients. However, limited data regarding the applicability of bariatric surgery to obese patients with PKU have been reported in the literature.

The performance of levothyroxine tablet is impaired by bariatric surgery.

Objective: The aim was to evaluate if bariatric surgery can affect the LT4 performance. The endpoints were the following: 1) difference between LT4 daily dose before and 1 year after surgery, 2) difference between LT4 dose per weight before and 1 year after surgery, 3) difference among LT4 preparations.

Methods: The study period was between January 2018 and May 2022.

Metronidazole and Peripheral Neuropathy: A Report of Two Cases of (Unusual) Side Effects.

Metronidazole is an antibiotic commonly prescribed for anaerobic and protozoan infections. Despite its good safety profile, this drug frequently causes a series of well-known side effects (nausea and intestinal transit disorders, dysgeusia, headaches, and alcohol intolerance). However, there are few data in the literature, mainly case reports and case series, about the onset of peripheral neuropathy with a generally self-limiting course after drug withdrawal.

The impact of the introduction of a clinical nutrition unit in a hospital: a retrospective observational study.

Objectives: the study describes the evolution over the years of the use of artificial nutrition, in particular after the introduction of a dedicated Clinical Nutrition and Dietetic Service. Methods: a single-center, retrospective observational study performed with data collected from 2014 to 2019 at the Regional Hospital of Locarno, Switzerland. Results: from 2014 to 2019, there has been an increase in the number of patients identified as being at risk of malnutrition.

The reorganisation of nutritional assessment and care in a hospital that became a COVID centre during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the early months of 2020, Europe was confronted by a pandemic that originated in China, which initially affected its territories in different ways. Parts of northern Italy were among the regions most affected. At the same time, Ticino, a small canton of Switzerland geographically wedged into Italian territory, had an incidence rate comparable to that of hard-hit Lombardy.

Phase angle is associated with length of hospital stay, readmissions, mortality, and falls in patients hospitalized in internal-medicine wards: A retrospective cohort study.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the predictive value of bioimpedance phase angle (PA) on selected clinical outcomes in patients hospitalized in internal-medicine wards.

Methods: This was a retrospective observational study of 168 patients admitted to the internalmedicine service (52.9% women, 47.

Nutritional Risk Screening and Body Composition in COVID-19 Patients Hospitalized in an Internal Medicine Ward.

Background: Malnutrition in patients hospitalized in internal medicine wards is highly prevalent and represents a prognostic factor of worse outcomes. Previous evidence suggested the prognostic role of the nutritional status in patients affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We aim to investigate the nutritional risk in patients with COVID-19 hospitalized in an internal medicine ward and their clinical outcomes using the Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS-2002) and parameters derived from bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA).