Outcome of surgery for colovesical and colovaginal fistulas of diverticular origin in 40 patients.

Introduction: According to literature, colonic resection with a primary anastomosis and no defunctioning ileostomy is a safe treatment for colovesical or colovaginal fistula of diverticular origin. This study investigates the outcome of surgery for this patient group in a regional hospital.

Methods: Patients were obtained from a prospective database in the period 2004-2011.

Is biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch a solution for patients after laparoscopic gastric banding failure?

Background: Weight loss failure after laparoscopic gastric banding (LAGB) can occur in ≤ 25% of patients. Conversion to a malabsorptive procedure might provide more durable weight loss. The present study evaluated biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch (BPD/DS) after LAGB failure with a 3-year follow-up period.

Outcome of 232 morbidly obese patients treated with laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding between 1995-2003.

Background: Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) is widely used for the treatment of morbidly obese patients. We prospectively evaluated the effect of LAGB since 1995.

Methods: Between March 1995 and August 2003, 232 morbidly obese patients underwent LAGB.

[Acute abdominal symptoms in patients with a gastric band].

Three women aged 32, 35 and 37 years, respectively, presented with upper abdominal symptoms such as pain, nausea and vomiting. Their history revealed that an adjustable silicone gastric band had been implanted for the treatment of obesity one, four and seven years previously. Their symptoms were not immediately recognised as being possible complications of the gastric band and this caused treatment delay.

[Splenectomy in a large general hospital: often caused by iatrogenic injury, often causing multiple complications; poor adherence to post-operative guidelines for vaccination and prophylaxis].

Objective: To assess the indications, complications and mortality associated with splenectomy in a large general hospital, and to evaluate adherence to guidelines for postoperative vaccination and prophylactic antibiotics.

Design: Retrospective, descriptive.

Method: Data were collected on 106 patients who underwent splenectomy between 1999 and 2004.