Clinical impact of Mediterranean-enriched-protein diet on liver size, visceral fat, fat mass, and fat-free mass in patients undergoing sleeve gastrectomy.

Background: Weight loss before laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is desirable because it can reduce visceral fat and liver size thereby facilitating the surgical procedure. Preoperative very-low-energy diets have been demonstrated to decrease weight, visceral fat, and liver size. However, no studies have been conducted using the Mediterranean-protein-enriched diet (MPED) or on the amount of preoperative weight loss attributed to the loss of fat-free mass (FFM).

Vertebral carcinomatosis eleven years after advanced gastric cancer resection: A case report.

Bone metastasis is an uncommon event in advanced gastric cancer patients and bone metastases are rarely detected as isolated lesions. However, eleven years after treatment for locally advanced gastric cancer, including total gastrectomy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy, a 49-year-old female was admitted to the IX Division of General Surgery of the Second University of Naples (Naples, Italy) exhibiting severe progressive neurological symptoms. Magnetic resonance imaging indicated vertebral abnormalities, with evidence of marrow infiltration in several vertebral bodies; however, a contrast-enhanced computed tomography scan did not detect disease progression to other sites.

Therapy with autologous adipose-derived regenerative cells for the care of chronic ulcer of lower limbs in patients with peripheral arterial disease.

Background: An ulcer is a trophic lesion with loss of tissue that often has a multifactorial genesis. It typically diverges from the physiologic processes of regeneration because it rarely tends to heal spontaneously. In this study, we used purified adipose-derived stem and regenerative cells (ADRCs) extracted from autologous fat, for the care of chronic ulcers of the lower limbs of arteriopathic patients.