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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...
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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...
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Open AccessSide-to-side magnet anastomosis system duodeno-ileostomy with sleeve gastrectomy: early multi-center results
Gastrointestinal anastomoses with classical sutures and/or metal staples have resulted in significant bleeding and leak rates. This multi-site study evaluated the feasibility, safety, and preliminary effective...
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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...
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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...
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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, ...
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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, ...
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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)...
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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...
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Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy
is a restrictive procedure, in is reduced to a vertical tube with a volume less than 200 mL. A metabolic action has been described in relation to this technique, due to of the curvature and the fundus...
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Resleeve Gastrectomy
Introduction
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Staple-Line Reinforcement and Omentopexy
Background: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) can present some complications such as bleeding and leakage. While leaks originate at the level of the staple line, some hemorrhages too, but not exclusively. Thi...
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Laparoscopic Duodenal Switch
Duodenal switch offers one of the best long-term controls of obesity-related diseases such as type-2 diabetes and is associated with one of the lowest risks of weight regain long-term. It should be part of sur...
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The History of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy
Background: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is a recent bariatric procedure emerging from duodenal switch that itself emerged from the standard biliopancreatic diversion.
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What We Have Learned After 20 Years of Sleeve Gastrectomy Regular Practice
Background: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is a recent bariatric procedure emerging from duodenal switch, which itself emerged from the standard biliopancreatic diversion.
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Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: Technical Systematization for a Safe Procedure
Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is the most commonly performed bariatric procedure in the world, accounting for more than 50% of all bariatric procedures (Ponce J, DeMaria EJ, Nguyen NT, Surg Obes Relat ...
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Open AccessComparison of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy leak rates in five staple-line reinforcement options: a systematic review
Staple-line leaks following laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) remain a concerning complication. Staple-line buttressing is largely adopted as an acceptable reinforcement but data regarding leaks have been ...
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Cost analysis of leak after sleeve gastrectomy
Leaks after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) are serious complications of this procedure. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the costs of leaks after LSG.
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Open AccessComparison between orogastric tube/bougie and a suction calibration system for effects on operative duration, staple-line corkscrewing, and esophageal perforation during laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy
Placement of a bougie for sleeve sizing during laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is recommended. We compared this standard with a suction calibration system (SCS) that performs all functions with one inser...
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Pancreatic Enucleation
Enucleation of functioning neuroendocrine neoplasms (insulinomas, selected gastrinomas) and nonfunctioning, well-circumscribed neuroendocrine neoplasms smaller than 2 cm has been shown to be appropriate therap...