Medication use before and after bariatric surgery: 5-year results from a randomised controlled trial of banded Roux-en-Y gastric bypass versus sleeve gastrectomy in patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Aim: Bariatric surgery is an effective tool for weight loss and for improving weight related co-morbidities. Changes in medication usage after a silastic ring laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (SR-LRYGB) compared with laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) are unknown.

Methods: This was a single-centre, double-blind, randomised controlled trial.

Management of acute sigmoid volvulus in a provincial centre-a 20-year experience.

Aim: At our institution there has been a long-standing early operative approach to large bowel volvulus as well as initial decompression with rigid sigmoidoscopy. The primary aim of this study was to investigate the safety and efficacy of this approach on reducing readmissions and complications. Secondary aims were to investigate the safety and efficacy of bedside rigid sigmoidoscopy in decompression of sigmoid volvulus and investigate the sensitivity of abdominal x-ray in the diagnosis of acute large bowel volvulus.

Inverted Meckel's diverticulum as a cause of obscure lower gastrointestinal bleeding.

Inverted Meckel's diverticulum is an infrequent cause of gastrointestinal blood loss, especially in adults. A high index of suspicion is needed for this rare entity when entertaining the possible differentials of gastrointestinal bleeding.