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The Psychology of Gastric Bypass Surgery

Obesity Surgery, 2001
This article discusses the importance of psychological evaluation of gastric bypass (GBP) surgery candidates and post-surgical psychological support services, using the Center for Weight Reduction Surgery at Montefiore Medical Center as a model. The study of psychological predictors of post-operative outcome is in its beginning stages, and the small ...
J, Glinski, S, Wetzler, E, Goodman
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Expectations and Outcomes with Gastric Bypass Surgery

Obesity Surgery, 2006
Bariatric surgery is widely accepted as the effective treatment option for morbid obesity. However, the extant literature does not provide mental health clinicians with consistent guidance for evaluating candidates for surgery, nor for preparing patients for postsurgical adjustment.
Brenda L, Wolfe, Maria L, Terry
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Atypical complications of gastric bypass surgery

European Journal of Radiology, 2005
Although gastric bypass surgery continues to grow in popularity for weight loss and weight maintenance in the morbidly obese, there has been little attention given to the imaging of complications associated with these surgeries. The purpose of our study is to demonstrate the variety of gastric bypass surgery complications that can be identified ...
Myrosia T, Mitchell, Victor J, Pizzitola, M-Grace, Knuttinen, Tiffany, Robinson, Arunas E, Gasparaitis   +4 more
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Readmissions Following Gastric Bypass Surgery

Obesity Surgery, 2015
Interest is growing in preventing readmissions as payers start to link reimbursement to readmission rates. The purpose of this study was to assess factors contributing to 30-day readmission for patients undergoing gastric bypass (GB) and determine whether these readmissions may be preventable.Data were from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment
Susie X, Sun, Christopher S, Hollenbeak, Ann M, Rogers   +2 more
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Gastric bypass surgery improves psoriasis

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2011
Recent studies have found that psoriasis is linked to a higher rate of obesity, and that obesity itself is a risk factor for the development of psoriasis. There are two recent reports of chronic severe psoriasis improving with weight loss after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. We have observed two patients with body mass indices greater than 50 kg/m(2)
Eric W, Hossler, Michele S, Maroon, Chris M, Mowad   +2 more
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Heparin Thromboprophylaxis in Gastric Bypass Surgery

Obesity Surgery, 2003
Patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery are at risk for postoperative venous thromboembolism. Thromboprophylaxis often includes fixed doses of some type of heparin. However, it is unlikely that the same dose of subcutaneous heparin will be optimal for all patients, because heparin pharmacokinetics depend on a number of patient variables, including ...
Michele F, Shepherd, Terry K, Rosborough, Michael L, Schwartz   +2 more
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Gastric bypass surgery in adolescents with morbid obesity

The Journal of Pediatrics, 2001
Objective: The objective was to review retrospectively all patients undergoing bariatric surgery at a large university medical center. Methods: Ten adolescents 17 years or younger underwent gastric bypass surgery; 7 of 10 adolescents had severe obesity‐related morbidities. Follow‐up>1 year was present in 9 of 10 adolescents.
R S, Strauss, L J, Bradley, R E, Brolin
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Gastric bypass surgery for severe obesity

Seminars in Laparoscopic Surgery, 2002
Severe obesity is associated with a number of co-morbidities. Medical weight reduction programs have not been proven to have long-term efficacy for these severely obese patients. Surgically induced weight loss has been found to completely reverse or markedly ameliorate obesity-related problems.
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Roux-en-Y gastric bypass as revisional surgery

Minerva Surgery, 2021
The Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is a worldwide-performed procedure as primary surgery, and as conversional procedure after complications and/or failure of other bariatric procedures. RYGB can be performed as revisional surgery after adjustable gastric banding, vertical banded gastroplasty, sleeve gastrectomy and one anastomosis gastric bypass. Each
Petrucciani N., Etienne J. H., Sebastianelli L., Iannelli A.   +3 more
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Laparoscopic gastric bypass

Surgical Endoscopy, 1996
The present report describes the technical details of laparoscopic bypass for morbid obesity.The laparoscopic approach was attempted in eight patients and completed in six. In these latter patients the stomach was divided with an endoscopic linear cutter (ETC 60 Ethicon), and a antecolic jejunal loop was brought to the proximal pouch and anastomosed by
H, Lönroth, J, Dalenbäck, E, Haglind, L, Lundell   +3 more
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