Digestive neo-epithelialization after endoscopic stenting for upper digestive tract complete disunion.

Background: Complete digestive disunion due to anastomotic necrosis is considered a contraindication to endoscopic repair. However, recent publications have suggested that endoscopic treatment by insertion of a self-expandable metal stent (SEMS) is possible. The report of this patient series aims to demonstrate the use of endoscopic management in selected cases with complete digestive disunion.

Long-Term Outcomes 10 Years after Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: a Single Center Retrospective Analysis.

Introduction: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is the most frequently performed bariatric procedure in the world. The aim of the study was to evaluate outcomes after 10 years.

Methods: Patients who underwent LSG between 2005 and 2010 in a single center were retrospectively assessed, focusing mainly on the percentage of excess weight loss (%EWL) after 10 years.

Particulate matter emissions during autopsies: a method to reduce exposure.

Particulate matter emitted during autopsies can serve as a vector for numerous viruses or bacteria and can lead to infections. Reducing the exposure of those particles in indoor working environments is, therefore, an important issue. To assess the health risk for employees in forensic medicine, we measure particulate matter in the ambient air during autopsies by using an aerosol spectrometer.

Perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis in patients undergoing pancreatoduodenectomy: retrospective analysis of bacteriological profile and susceptibility.

Background: Pancreatic tumours are frequently associated with obstructive jaundice requiring preoperative biliary drainage (PBD) before pancreatoduodenectomy (PD), exposing patients to infectious complications. This study aims to compare postoperative complications after PD with or without PBD and to analyse bile bacteriology and antibiotic susceptibility.

Methods: All patients undergoing PD between 2014 and 2019 were retrospectively evaluated, and postoperative outcomes were compared according to PBD use.

Peritoneal patch in vascular reconstruction during pancreaticoduodenectomy for pancreatic cancer: a single Centre experience.

Background: Concomitant venous resection during pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) for pancreatic adenocarcinoma with mesenterico-portal vein involvement is increasingly performed to achieve oncological resection. This study aims to report a single centre experience in peritoneal patch (PP) as autologous graft for vascular reconstruction (VR) during PD.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of all patients who underwent PD + VR with PP between December 2019 and September 2020 was performed, using a prospective collected database.

Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Short-Term Results After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Background: The recent COVID-19 pandemic has led several countries worldwide to confine the population. Consequently, people's mobility and physical activity are limited in addition to a negative psychosocial effect. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of COVID-19 crisis on short-term weight loss and the remission of obesity-associated comorbidities in patients undergoing sleeve gastrectomy (SG).

Five-year Outcomes of Sleeve Gastrectomy: A Prospective Multicenter Study.

Background: Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) is the most frequently performed bariatric procedure in the world. Our purpose was to evaluate the percentage of excess weight loss (%EWL), resolution of obesity-related comorbidities after SG, and identify predictive factors of weight loss failure.

Methods: A prospective cohort study of adults who underwent SG during 2014 in 7 Belgian-French centers.

Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy for morbid obesity in a Belgian-French prospective multicenter study: outcomes and predictors weight loss failure.

Introduction: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) became the most frequently performed bariatric procedure worldwide, gaining rapidly popularity thanks to its technical simplicity and the relatively good results. The aim of this Belgian-French study was to evaluate postoperative complications, weight loss, and resolution of obesity-related comorbidities after LSG, and identify predictive factors of weight loss failure.

Patients And Methods: A prospective multicenter study was conducted on all LSG performed during 2014 in 7 centers.

Core gene-based molecular detection and identification of Acanthamoeba species.

Acanthamoeba spp. are predominant free-living amoebae of water and soil. They have been used as tools for the isolation and culture of microbes that resist after their phagocytosis, such as Legionella-like bacteria, and, more recently giant viruses for which differences in permissiveness have been reported.

A broadly conserved NERD genetically interacts with the exocyst to affect root growth and cell expansion.

The exocyst, a conserved, octameric protein complex, helps mediate secretion at the plasma membrane, facilitating specific developmental processes that include control of root meristem size, cell elongation, and tip growth. A genetic screen for second-site enhancers in Arabidopsis identified NEW ENHANCER of ROOT DWARFISM1 (NERD1) as an exocyst interactor. Mutations in NERD1 combined with weak exocyst mutations in SEC8 and EXO70A1 result in a synergistic reduction in root growth.

Strangulation of giant rectal prolapse.

Introduction Rectal prolapse is the complete protrusion of the rectum through the anal canal, incarceration rarely complicates rectal prolapse. Even more rarely, it becomes strangulated and gangrenous, necessitating emergency surgery. Case presentation We present the first reported case of strangulated acute rectal prolapse as the first manifestation of rectal prolapse.

Staple line reinforcement during sleeve gastrectomy with a new type of reinforced stapler.

Background: Bleeding and staple-line leak, are the most common complications of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. To decrease the incidence of this complications, a variety of intraoperative reinforcement of staple line is used. Reinforced GIA™ is a new automatic suture device with pre-attached synthetic tissue reinforcement, but no study has evaluated its use in sleeve gastrectomy.

Laparoscopy-assisted transjejunal ERCP in a patient with roux-en-Y gastric bypass.

In the case of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass with a long afferent limb, the need to carry out an ERCP still represents a technical challenge. In this article we describe the case of a 50-year-old male admitted to the ER for abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant, in the context of prior Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (4 years ago), with uncomplicated gallbladder stones discovered 3 months ago. The patient presented recurrent abdominal pain for 3 months but in the last few days the pain became continuous.