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Correction: Advice of General Practitioner, of Surgeon, of Endocrinologist, and Self-Determination: the Italian Road to Bariatric Surgery
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Advice of General Practitioner, of Surgeon, of Endocrinologist, and Self-determination: the Italian Road to Bariatric Surgery
Bariatric surgery (BS) is considered the most efficient treatment for severe obesity. International guidelines recommend multidisciplinary approach to BS (general practitioners, endocrinologists, surgeons, psy...
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Leakage Risk Stratification After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy (LSG): Is There a Role for Routine Postoperative CT Scan?
Leakage of the gastric remnant after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) represents an unpredictable, dreadful occurrence. Our aim was to assess whether routine postoperative CT scan is an effective tool for...
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Open AccessRegulatory T-cells from pancreatic lymphnodes of patients with type-1 diabetes express increased levels of microRNA miR-125a-5p that limits CCR2 expression
Autoimmune type 1 diabetes (T1D) is thought to be caused by a defective immune regulation with regulatory T (Treg) cells playing a fundamental role in this process. Tolerance mechanisms depend on tunable respo...
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Duodenal stump fistula after gastric surgery for malignancies: a retrospective analysis of risk factors in a single centre experience
Duodenal stump fistula (DSF) is the most severe surgical complication after gastrectomy. This study was designed to assess the incidence, to observe the consequences, and to identify the risk factors associate...
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Apparent diffusion coefficient modifications in assessing gastro-oesophageal cancer response to neoadjuvant treatment: comparison with tumour regression grade at histology
To assess changes in apparent diffusion coefficient (ΔADC) and volume (ΔV) after neoadjuvant treatment (NT), and tumour regression grade (TRG) in gastro-oesophageal cancers (GEC), and to discriminate responder...
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Insulin secretory patterns and blood glucose homeostasis after islet allotransplantation in IDDM patients: comparison with segmental- or whole-pancreas transplanted patients through a long term longitudinal study
IDDM patients undergoing islet, segmental pancreas or whole pancreas allotransplantation were studied at regular intervals after surgery (3–6 months, 1, 2, 3 and 4 years) to evaluate glycometabolic control (24...
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Islet isolation assessment in man and large animals
Recent progress in islet isolation from the pancreas of large mammals including man, accentuated the need for the development of precise and reproducible techniques to assess islet yield. In this report both q...