[Serum ghrelin changes after bariatric surgery].

Objective: To study the effect of bariatric surgery on serum ghrelin in patients with morbid obesity.

Material And Methods: We experimentally analyzed serum ghrelin in 96 rats. Of these, 84 rats underwent sleeve gastrectomy, and 12 rats comprised the control group (no surgery).

Gastric cancer epidemiology from 2009 to 2019 in Dnipro Region, Ukraine.

Background: Gastric cancer (GC) is in top-five the most frequent cancers in Ukrainian males and is the third cause of death among patients with cancer. GC keeps its leading position in cancer ranks despite the decline in incidence and mortality over the last 50 years. Local epidemiological information will help in better targeting medical and public health interventions.

[Surgical treatment of gallbladder polyps].

Objective: To study the incidence of gallbladder polyps and the possibilities of modern methods of diagnosis and surgical treatment of this disease.

Material And Methods: There were 42 laparoscopic cholecystectomies in patients with diagnosed gallbladder polyps. The polyps were diagnosed preoperatively.

[Gastric plication in treatment of patients with overweight and obesity].

Aim: To present the new method of gastric plication in treatment of patients with overweight and obesity.

Material And Methods: There were 132 different bariatric interventions in patients with overweight and obesity.

Results: It is described an original technique of laparoscopic gastric placation characterized by reduced postoperative morbidity, simplicity, low traumatism, and economic efficiency.

[Creative surgery for hiatal hernia].

Aim: To present an experience of surgical treatment of hiatal hernia.

Material And Methods: An experience of more than thousand laparoscopic fundoplications in various modifications has been accumulated in the Clinic of Bashkir State Medical University for the period 2001-2016.

Results: An original device for intraoperative measurement of hiatal orifice is described.