Optimizing Bariatric Surgery Multidisciplinary Follow-up: a Focus on Patient-Centered Care.

Background: Failure to follow-up post-bariatric surgery has been associated with higher postoperative complications, lower percentage weight loss and poorer nutrition.

Objective: This study aimed to understand the patient follow-up experience in order to optimize follow-up care within a comprehensive bariatric surgery program.

Methods: Qualitative telephone interviews were conducted in patients who underwent surgery through a publically funded multidisciplinary bariatric surgery program in 2011, in Ontario, Canada.

Histopathological evaluation of chronic gastritis with and without Helicobacter pylori colonization: a study from Iran.

Chronic gastritis is defined as the presence of chronic mucosal inflammatory changes leading eventually to mucosal atrophy and epithelial metaplasia. It is notable for distinct causal subgroups and for patterns of histological alterations that vary in different parts of the world. By far the most important aetiological association is chronic infection by the bacillus Helicobacter pylori (Hp).