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Predictors of post-discharge pain and satisfaction with pain management after laparoscopic bariatric surgery: a prospective cohort study

Pain management after bariatric surgery remains challenging given the risk for analgesia-related adverse events (e.g., opioid use disorder, marginal ulcers). Identifying modifiable factors associated with pati...

Maxime Lapointe-Gagner, Shrieda Jain, Naser Alali, Hiba Elhaj… in Surgical Endoscopy (2023)

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Prescription and consumption of opioids after bariatric surgery: a multicenter prospective cohort study

In the current opioid crisis, bariatric surgical patients are at increased risk of harms related to postoperative opioid overprescribing. This study aimed to assess the extent to which opioids prescribed at di...

Shrieda Jain, Maxime Lapointe-Gagner, Naser Alali, Hiba Elhaj… in Surgical Endoscopy (2023)

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Side-to-side duodeno-ileal magnetic compression anastomosis: design and feasibility of a novel device in a porcine model

Minimally invasive metabolic/bariatric surgery (MBS) may be further advanced by magnetic compression anastomosis (MCA) technology. The study aimed to develop a magnet sized to create a patent duodeno-ileostomy...

Michel Gagner, Todd Krinke, Maxime Lapointe-Gagner, J. N. Buchwald in Surgical Endoscopy (2023)

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Laparoscopic and Robotic Sleeve Gastrectomy

Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (SG) as a bariatric procedure was initially described in 1999 as part of a laparoscopic duodenal switch and then performed as a two-stage procedure for high-risk patients, the i...

Collin E. M. Brathwaite, Raelina S. Howell… in The AFS Textbook of Foregut Disease (2023)

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Duodenal Bipartition or Side-to-Side Duodeno-Ileostomy: Rationale and Technical Details

A side-to-side duodeno-ileostomy, or “duodenal bipartition,” is a modification of the single anastomosis duodeno-ileostomy (SADI), a much less complicated anastomosis. Compared to the SADI, the duodenal transe...

Michel Gagner, Maxime Lapointe-Gagner in Duodenal Switch and Its Derivatives in Bar… (2023)

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Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: The Technique

Sleeve gastrectomy is presently the most popular weight loss procedure globally. The only absolute contraindication to this procedure is the presence of Barrett’s esophagus. Comprehensive preoperative workup, ...

Sandeep Aggarwal, Mehul Gupta, Vitish Singla… in Obesity, Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery (2023)

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Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery

Surgical therapy for severe obesity is known as “bariatric surgery”. The origin of these surgical techniques is found in the 1950s, when malabsorptive surgery was first performed to treat hyperlipidemia syndro...

Michel Gagner, Franck Billmann in Essentials of Visceral Surgery (2023)

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Response to “ Comment on: Alarmists at the Gates: Esophageal Adenocarcinoma After Sleeve Gastrectomy Is Not Different than with Other Bariatric/Metabolic Surgery”

Michel Gagner in Obesity Surgery (2022)

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Alarmists at the Gates: Esophageal Adenocarcinoma after Sleeve Gastrectomy is Not Different than with Other Bariatric/Metabolic Surgeries

Michel Gagner in Obesity Surgery (2022)

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Duodeno-Ileal Anastomosis with Self-Assembling Magnets: Initial Concepts and Basis of This Operation

Michel Gagner in Obesity Surgery (2022)

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Metabolic Surgery Needs Stronger Scientific and Genetic Endorsements in Asian T2DM Patients with Low BMI

Michel Gagner in Obesity Surgery (2022)

Living Reference Work Entry In depth

Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: The Technique

Sleeve gastrectomy is presently the most popular weight loss procedure globally. The only absolute contraindication to this procedure is the presence of Barrett’s esophagus. Comprehensive preoperative workup, ...

Sandeep Aggarwal, Mehul Gupta, Vitish Singla… in Obesity, Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery

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Leak After Sleeve Gastrectomy: Updated Algorithm of Treatment

Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is currently the most common procedure performed worldwide, and still the leak is considered the main limitation. After an initial enthusiasm for stents, the endoscopic tr...

Thierry Manos, Marius Nedelcu, Anamaria Nedelcu, Michel Gagner… in Obesity Surgery (2021)

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Development of an International Standardized Curriculum for Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Teaching Utilizing Modified Delphi Methodology

The performance of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy has increased markedly to become the single-most performed bariatric surgical procedure globally. To date, a means of standardized trainee teaching has not be...

Ruth E. Blackham, Raul J. Rosenthal, Kelvin Higa, Michel Gagner… in Obesity Surgery (2021)

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The initiation, standardization and proficiency (ISP) phases of the learning curve for minimally invasive liver resection: comparison of a fellowship-trained surgeon with the pioneers and early adopters

Using the Ideal Development Exploration Assessment and Long-term study (IDEAL) paradigm, Halls et al. created risk-adjusted cumulative sum (RA-CUSUM) curves concluding that Pioneers (P) and Early Adopters (EA)...

Andrew A. Gumbs, Mohamed Abu Hilal, Roland Croner, Brice Gayet… in Surgical Endoscopy (2021)

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The experience of the minimally invasive (MI) fellowship-trained (FT) hepatic-pancreatic and biliary (HPB) surgeon: could the outcome of MI pancreatoduodenectomy for peri-ampullary tumors be better than open?

Although early series focused on benign disease, minimally invasive pancreatoduodenectomy (MIPD) might be particularly suited for malignancy. Unlike their predecessors, fellowship-trained (FT) Hepatic-Pancreat...

Andrew A. Gumbs, Elie Chouillard, Mohamed Abu Hilal, Roland Croner… in Surgical Endoscopy (2021)