30-Day Morbidity and Mortality of Bariatric Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Multinational Cohort Study of 7704 Patients from 42 Countries.

Background: There are data on the safety of cancer surgery and the efficacy of preventive strategies on the prevention of postoperative symptomatic COVID-19 in these patients. But there is little such data for any elective surgery. The main objectives of this study were to examine the safety of bariatric surgery (BS) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and to determine the efficacy of perioperative COVID-19 protective strategies on postoperative symptomatic COVID-19 rates.

A Rare Case of Ileocolic Obstruction Due to Lithophagia Associated with Cervical Oesophageal Perforation.

Lithophagia is a rare syndrome characterized by a repetitive ingestion of stones and pebbles. We herein report a case of a 61-year old mentally retarded man, with a past surgical history of multiple laparotomies for stone ingestion, presenting with cervical oesophagus perforation due to a large butterfly screw and massive impaction of 89 stones and other foreign bodies in the caecum, with consequent mechanical bowel obstruction.

Pure transumbilical SILS gastric bypass with mechanical circular gastrojejunal anastomosis feasibility.

Background: Since Wittgrove introduced the laparoscopic version of the gastric bypass in 1994, the interest still remains in the decrease of the abdominal wall trauma in order to optimize the benefits of laparoscopy on postoperative pain, cosmesis, hospital stay, and convalescence in bariatric patients. This work is to report the feasibility of gastric bypass surgery by a pure transumbilical single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) with a mechanical circular gastrojejunal anastomosis.

Methods: Thirty-four patients (10 males and 24 females) were offered to receive gastric bypass with circular mechanical gastrojejunal anastomosis by Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS) using pure transumbilical access.

[Meckel's diverticulum and obstruction of the small intestine in adult patients: report of two cases].

Meckel's Diverticulum (MD) is the most frequent congenital anomaly of the ileum. However, its clinical manifestations in adult patients are rare. In this paper, we report cases with two different mechanisms of small intestine obstruction due to MD and we discuss diagnosis and management of these symptomatic lesions in adult patients.

[A huge inguino-scrotal hernia].

We report herein a case of a 76 year-old-man, who presented a huge left inguino-scrotal hernia. Laparoscopic reduction of the hernia contents and hernia repair through an inguinal approach were performed. No recurrence was observed two years and a half postoperatively.