Psychological Benefits of a Preoperative Educational Bridging Program for Bariatric Surgery: Does Face-to-Face versus Videoconference-Based Delivery Make a Difference?

Introduction: Short educational programs prior to metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) provide information to prepare patients adequately for surgery and subsequent changes. Our knowledge of the beneficial effects of these programs on stabilizing and improving mental health of patients with obesity awaiting surgery is incomplete. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of a group-based educational program before MBS on three key factors: (i) patients' mental health, (ii) the program's perceived helpfulness from the patients' perspective, and (iii) the effectiveness of delivering the program online via videoconferencing.

Effects of Lifestyle and Educational Bridging Programs before Bariatric Surgery on Postoperative Weight Loss: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Objective: To fulfill the requirements for bariatric surgery, patients often need to participate in mandatory preoperative lifestyle interventions. Currently, the efficacy of multi-month preoperative lifestyle intervention programs on body mass index (BMI) reduction from the start of the program (T0) through the immediate preoperative time point (T1) to 1 year post-surgery (T2) and how the amount of preoperative BMI reduction affects postoperative outcome (T1 to T2) is unclear. The aim of this meta-analysis was to analyze the effects of preoperative lifestyle interventions on BMI 1 year post-surgery.

Conventional weight loss interventions across the different BMI obesity classes: A systematic review and quantitative comparative analysis.

Objective: The recommendation for conventional body weight loss (BWL) treatment in obesity is 5-10%. It is not clear whether BWL is similar across the three different body mass index (BMI) obesity classes. The aim was to provide an overview on BWL across these classes in moderate lifestyle/diet intervention programs.

Spontaneous closure of anterior capsule tear.

We report a case of anterior capsule tear that was closed spontaneously by fibrotic tissue during the postoperative period. The tear was inadvertently created during intraocular lens (IOL) implantation in the capsular bag. The IOL remained stable in the postoperative period, with excellent centration and no compromise in vision.

Combined photodynamic therapy and intravitreal triamcinolone for choroidal neovascularization secondary to punctate inner choroidopathy or of idiopathic origin: one-year results of a prospective series.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of combined intravitreal triamcinolone (IVTA) and photodynamic therapy (PDT) with verteporfin in the treatment of subfoveal choroidal neovascularization (CNV) due to punctate inner choroidopathy (PIC) or of idiopathic cause.

Methods: Consecutive patients with subfoveal idiopathic and PIC CNV were prospectively recruited and received combined PDT and 4 mg IVTA injection. Patients were observed every 3 months for 1 year and retreatment was performed in the presence of angiographic leakage.

Failure of systemic antibiotic in preventing sequential endogenous endophthalmitis of a bronchiectasis patient.

Purpose: To report a rare presentation of bilateral, sequential Pseudomonas aeruginosa endogenous endophthalmitis in a woman with bronchiectasis.

Design: Interventional case report.

Methods: A 69-year-old woman with bronchiectasis developed right and then left endogenous endophthalmitis with the microbial of P.