Long-Term Outcome in a Phase II Study of Regional Hyperthermia Added to Preoperative Radiochemotherapy in Locally Advanced and Recurrent Rectal Adenocarcinomas.

Hyperthermia was added to standard preoperative chemoradiation for rectal adenocarcinomas in a phase II study. Patients with T3-4 N0-2 M0 rectal cancer or local recurrences were included. Radiation dose was 54 Gy combined with capecitabine 825 mg/m × 2 daily and once weekly oxaliplatin 55 mg/m.

Predictors for remission of major components of the metabolic syndrome after biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch (BPDDS).

Background: Metabolic surgery causes the remission of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), hypertension, and hyperlipidemia to varying degrees, depending on the patient characteristics and the surgical procedure. The aim of this study was to find predictors for the remission of T2DM and hypertension after biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch (BPDDS).

Methods: Eighty patients with T2DM were followed up for 2 years or more after BPDDS, and changes in body weight and metabolic status were noted.

The biliopancreatic diversion with a duodenal switch (BPDDS): how is it optimally performed?

Background: The biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch can be performed by different combinations of restriction and malabsorption. The aim of this study was to evaluate weight loss and potential side effects for two variants of the procedure.

Methods: All patients eligible for a 2-year follow-up (n = 182) was included in the study.

Anxiety and depression in association with morbid obesity: changes with improved physical health after duodenal switch.

Background: Patients with morbid obesity have an increased risk for anxiety and depression. The "duodenal switch" is perhaps the most effective obesity surgery procedure for inducing weight loss. However, to our knowledge, data on symptoms of anxiety and depression after the duodenal switch are lacking.

Health-related quality of life and paid work participation after duodenal switch.

Background: Morbid obesity can reduce the health-related quality of life (HRQL) and paid work participation, and the duodenal switch (DS) can induce large weight loss in patients suffering from this disease. However, data about HRQL combined with paid work participation after duodenal switch are lacking. The aim of this study was to provide longitudinal data of these issues.

Predictors for health-related quality of life in patients accepted for bariatric surgery.

Background: The relationship among musculoskeletal pain, depression, and health-related quality of life in patients with severe obesity who are accepted for bariatric surgery should be explored further.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we measured the health-related quality of life using the generic questionnaire "Short-Form 36 Health Status Survey." Multiple regression analysis was used to explore associations between the predictors (musculoskeletal pain and depression) and the physical cumulative summary (PCS) and mental cumulative summary (MCS).

[Health-related quality of life before and one year after operation for morbid obesity].

Background: Several studies have shown that morbid obese patients have poor health-related quality of life. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of bariatric surgery (biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch) on health-related quality of life for morbidly obese patients.

Methods: 48 patients (26 women and 22 men, mean age 37.

[Boerhaave's syndrome--an unusual cause of acute retrosternal pain].

Background: Boerhaave's syndrome or spontaneous perforation of the oesophagus is a rare condition with a severe prognosis. Adequate treatment is often delayed because of misdiagnosis of the condition as cardial, pulmonary or other gastrointestinal disease, with a concomitant rise in mortality.

Material And Methods: A case of Boerhaave's syndrome is described.

[Colonoscopy. In investigation, treatment and control of gastrointestinal diseases].

Colonoscopy is the initial examination for patients with manifest or occult rectal bleeding, inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal polyps. In addition to polypectomy, colonoscopy is useful in decompression of adynamic colonileus and laser palliation of intractable tumours. In adenoma patients controls should be limited to high risk patients, i.