The value of honey dressings in pilonidal cyst healing: a prospective randomized single-center trial.

Background: Honey is described as a wound healing agent. Many virtues have been attributed to it, in particular, antibacterial properties. The aim of our study was to evaluate its value in healing of wounds after wide excision on pilonidal cyst healing.

Lack of benefit of routine abdominal CT-scan before bariatric surgery.

Background: Scientific societies recommend to seek cancer prior to bariatric surgery. In our tertiary referral center, we aimed to study performance of abdominal CT-scan before bariatric surgery.

Patients And Methods: We retrospectively included all patients who underwent bariatric surgery and a pre-operative abdominal CT-scan in our academic center, between January 2015 and December 2018.

Predictive value of preoperative DeMeester score on conversion to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for gastroeosophageal reflux disease after sleeve gastrectomy.

Background: Obesity is well known to increase the risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). The impact of sleeve gastrectomy (SG) on GERD is still discussed but seems to be associated with the development of de novo GERD or the exacerbation of preexisting GERD.

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of preoperative pH monitoring, using the DeMeester score (DMS), on the risk of conversion to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) after SG.

Hypotonic Low Esophageal Sphincter Is Not Predictive of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease After Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Background: Sleeve gastrectomy is the most commonly performed bariatric surgery these days but is associated with de novo reflux.

Objective: We aimed to study the influence of hypotonic lower esophageal sphincter (LES) on postoperative gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

Methods: Patients with pre- and postoperative esophageal high-resolution manometry (HRM) and 24-h pH monitoring (pHM) were included retrospectively in our study.

Long-Term Complications of Open Mason's Vertical Banded Gastroplasty at a Single Tertiary Center and Literature Review.

Vertical banded gastroplasty (VBG), introduced by Mason in 1982, is now discarded because of important long-term complications and technical difficulties to do revisional surgery. We investigated the long-term complications of VBG in our center and compared it with the literature data. Patients who underwent an open VBG at the University Hospital of Nantes between October 1991 and May 2006 were included.