Impact of Robotic Assistance on Complications in Bariatric Surgery at Expert Laparoscopic Surgery Centers: A Retrospective Comparative Study With Propensity Score.

Objective: To investigate the way robotic assistance affected rate of complications in bariatric surgery at expert robotic and laparoscopic surgery facilities.

Background: While the benefits of robotic assistance were established at the beginning of surgical training, there is limited data on the robot's influence on experienced bariatric laparoscopic surgeons.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective study using the BRO clinical database (2008-2022) collecting data of patients operated on in expert centers.

Benefits and risks of bariatric surgery in patients aged more than 60 years.

Background: The benefits and risks of bariatric surgery are debated in older patients. The objective of this study was to compare the weight changes and adverse outcomes in patients>60 years and in younger ones.

Methods: The French SOFFCO registry was screened for gastric bypass (RYGB), gastric banding (LAGB), or sleeve gastrectomy (SG) performed between 2007 and 2010.

Intragastric balloon for "non-morbid" obesity: a retrospective evaluation of tolerance and efficacy.

Background: One potential indication for intra-gastric balloon is weight reduction for mild to moderate obesity. The authors evaluated retrospectively the tolerance and efficacy of the BioEnterics intragastric balloon (BIB).

Methods: From February 1998 to July 2001, an intragastric balloon was placed under endoscopic control in 176 patients (mean BMI 31 kg/m(2)).

[Retrograde extraperitoneal laparoscopic prostatectomy (R.E.I.P). Simplified technique (based on a series of 143 cases].

Since the first laparoscopic prostatectomies, performed via an intraperitoneal approach in Bordeaux, France, in November 1997 (Gaston et al.) and then via an extraperitoneal approach in Belgium in September 1999 (BOLLENS et al.), several French (Montsouris and Mondor) and European teams have adopted and amplified these approaches, but much late and more discreetly in the case of the extraperitoneal approach.