Association between metabolic and bariatric surgery and malignancy: a systematic review, meta-analysis, trends, and conclusions.

Background: Conflicting studies have investigated the association between obesity, metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS), and cancer.

Objectives: Our study aimed at elucidating the trends in cancer incidence that are related to obesity and weight loss managed through MBSs, like Colo-rectal, breast, uterine, and esophageal cancer.

Setting: We conducted a search using PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library electronic databases through May 2020.

The impact of preoperative breast MRI on the therapeutic management of breast cancer patients.

Background: The role of preoperative breast MRI to evaluate the extent of disease in breast cancer patients is considered controversial. We aimed at assessing the effect of breast MRI on the management of newly diagnosed breast cancer.

Materials: A retrospective review of 202 consecutively seen patients who were newly diagnosed with breast cancer and who underwent preoperative breast MRIs at Assuta Ashdod between June 1, 2017, and June 1, 2020.

Banded One-Anastomosis Gastric Bypass (BOAGB) for Patients Living with Obesity and Extreme Obesity: A Single Institution's Experience.

Background: The prevalence of patients suffering from extreme obesity (body mass index (BMI) ≥ 50) has significantly increased over the past three decades, surpassing the rise in the general population of overweight patients. Weight loss outcomes after bariatric surgery in patients suffering from extreme obesity are less favorable, with a higher incidence of weight regain. Variations of existing bariatric procedures have been proposed to address this issue.

Gender Comparisons of Surgical Outcomes in Patients Undergoing One Anastomosis Gastric Bypass (OAGB): a Historical Cohort Study.

Introduction And Purpose: Clinical trials in the field of bariatrics have frequently been gender imbalanced, with males representing only 20% of examinees. Long-term gender-oriented results in one anastomosis gastric bypass (OAGB), and specifically quality of life (QOL) parameters, have not been addressed sufficiently. A better understanding of gender's effect on OAGB outcomes can play an important role in selecting the appropriate bariatric surgery for patients.

The Effect of Bariatric Surgery upon Diabetes Mellitus: A Proof of Concept by Using the Case of the Mid-Term Effect of Lap Adjustable Gastric Banding (LAGB) on Patients with Diabetes.

Obesity is a worldwide epidemic, with numbers on the rise in the world. Obesity is strongly correlated with increased morbidity and mortality. One of the major factors affecting this increase is comorbid diseases such as diabetes mellitus (DM), which is strongly associated with and dependent on the degree of obesity.

[LANDMARKS IN THE MEDICAL HISTORY OF ISRAEL - IS IT TRULY INTERWEAVING WITHIN THE ISRAELI POSTAL STAMP].

Issuing postal stamps is the main sign of a nation's independence. The first stamps series of Israel were issued a mere two days after the declaration of Israel's independence. Since then, almost 1750 postal stamps were issued as a single unit or different stamps series.

[SURGICAL PALLIATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER].

Pancreatic cancer (PC) is the 11th most common malignancy worldwide, however, entailing a mortality in excess of 90% within 5 years from diagnosis, it is the 4th most fatal malignant disease. PC is commonly diagnosed at an advanced stage, in which curative resection is no longer possible. Even patients who present with potentially curable disease will have upward of 30% recurrence of their disease within the first year.

A Comparison of One- and Two-Stage Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Following Failed Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding Using the BAROS Score.

Introduction: Revision of a failed band can be done by laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG). It can be performed synchronously with band removal or during two separate procedures.

Aim: Comparing single- and two-staged LSG following a failed LAGB in terms of short- and mid-term outcomes, with an emphasis on postoperative quality of life.

[IS THERE STILL A PLACE TO USE ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE IN THE 21ST CENTURY?].

Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) is a simple test that is not without limitations but is still widely used. Dysfunction is used as a diagnostic test on the one hand and as a follow-up test on the other, where many physicians attribute normal results of this test to the absence of disease. Therefore, the question remains: Is there still room for continued ESR in the 21st century? And are there other tests with higher sensitivity and specificity that can replace the ESR? The purpose of the current review is to acquaint the reader with this test, its advantages and limitations, and to expand the scope of alternative tests and their effectiveness in comparison to ESR.

Clinical and Laboratory Findings in Jewish and Bedouin Patients in Southern Israel Who Were Diagnosed with Factor VII Deficiency.

Background: Congenital factor VII deficiency is a rare recessive autosomal bleeding disorder with a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations.

Objectives: To compare the clinical and laboratory findings in Jewish and Bedouin patients with factor VII deficiency.

Methods: The clinical and laboratory findings of patients with factor VII deficiency treated at Soroka Medical Center, a tertiary hospital in Israel, from 2005 to 2015 were analyzed regarding blood factor levels, illness severity, treatment administration, and disease outcome.

The prognostic significance of bone marrow involvement in diffuse large B cell lymphoma according to the flow cytometry.

The significance of minimal bone marrow (BM) involvement in diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL), as determined by flow cytometry (FC), is unclear. Patient outcomes were retrospectively analyzed based on their BM biopsy and FC involvement. Eighty-one patients were included, 21 and 51 were positive for biopsy(B+) and FC(FC+) respectively.

Pediatric Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Southern Israel: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Objectives: This study aimed to describe the epidemiology and clinical burden of unintended carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning among children in the Negev region of southern Israel.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional retrospective study of CO poisoning patients admitted to Soroka University Medical Center in 2011 through 2015.

Results: Overall, 43 cases of CO poisoning were recorded among children younger than 18 years.

Management of gastrosplenic fistula in the emergency setting - A case report and review of the literature.

Introduction: A gastrosplenic fistula (GSF) is a very rare complication that arises mainly from a splenic or gastric large cell lymphoma. The proximity of the gastric fundus to the enlarged fragile spleen may facilitate the fistulisation. This complication can lead to massive bleeding, which, though uncommon, may be lethal.

Do Male Patients Benefit from Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding More than Female Patients? A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Background: Clinical trials in the field of bariatrics, and specifically laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB), have frequently been gender imbalanced, with males representing only 20% of examinees. Long-term gender-oriented results, and specifically quality of life (QOL) parameters, have not been addressed sufficiently. The aim of our study was to examine the long-term gender association with outcome of LAGB including the impact on QOL.

A 15-year-old Nepali boy with metastasised colorectal cancer.

Nepal suffers from vast inequalities in modern healthcare. The low-income country wrestles with far-reaching insufficiencies in minimal preventative medicine, health awareness, limited infrastructure and difficult topography-all of which contribute to poor access and poor care-seeking behaviour. Our patient came from rural Nepal, where primary healthcare outposts are frequently understaffed and underequipped.

[DEMOGRAPHIC AND ANATOMIC CHARACTERISTICS AND SURGERY RESULTS IN CHILDREN WHO WERE TREATED IN SOROKA FOR CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS].

Background: Craniosynostosis, the premature fusion of one or more of the cranial sutures, can occur as a part of a syndrome or as an isolated deformity. When not treated properly it may have major physical and social implications.

Study Hypothesis: We assumed that our center's results are similar to those reported in the literature, in terms of gender and anatomic characteristics, and different in terms of the number of syndromic cases.

Colorectal cancer in southern Israel: Comparison between Bedouin Arab and Jewish patients.

Purpose: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common malignancy and the third leading cause of cancer deaths in Israel; it is less common among the Arab than the Jewish population. This study compares the clinico-pathologic features, treatment, and prognosis between Bedouin-Arab (BA) and Jewish CRC patients treated at our medical centre.

Methods: The medical records of 56 BA patients with CRC were compared retrospectively to 115 Jewish patients.