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Readmissions Following Gastric Bypass Surgery
Obesity Surgery, 2015Interest 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 +2 more
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Gastric bypass surgery improves psoriasis
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2011Recent 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)
Michele Maroon +2 more
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Heparin Thromboprophylaxis in Gastric Bypass Surgery
Obesity Surgery, 2003Patients 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 +2 more
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Gastric bypass surgery for severe obesity
Seminars in Laparoscopic Surgery, 2002Severe 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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Gastric bypass surgery as treatment of recalcitrant gastroparesis [PDF]
Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, 2014 Few treatments for idiopathic and diabetic gastroparesis exist beyond symptom management, and no study has described gastric surgery for gastroparesis in obese and morbidly obese patients. The objective of this study was to describe treatment of recalcitrant gastroparesis in obese adults with Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery.A retrospective ...
Olayemi A. Ajayi +5 more
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Gastric bypass surgery in adolescents with morbid obesity
The Journal of Pediatrics, 2001Objective: 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.
Robert E. Brolin +2 more
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Revisional Surgery: Aphagia After Gastric Bypass
Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques, 2020Background: Gastric bypass is one of the most widely performed bariatric procedures worldwide and continues to be the gold standard in obese patients with metabolic disorders.1 Regarding the complications, these can appear early or late, the most frequent of the latter being anastomosis stenosis, especially the gastrojejunal (G-J) stenosis.
Mariano Palermo +2 more
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Gastric bypass surgery mimetic approaches
Drug Discovery Today, 2017Gastric bypass surgery is effectively a polypharmacological approach for treatment of obesity, type 2 diabetes and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). The gastric bypass mimetic approaches reviewed are fixed-dose combinatorial pharmacological approaches. There are two key concepts incorporated into these gastric bypass surgery mimetic approaches.
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Ulcer disease after gastric bypass surgery
Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, 2006The mechanism of marginal ulceration after laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery is poorly understood. We reviewed the incidence, presentation, and outcome of ulcer disease in consecutive patients undergoing laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery.The outcomes of 201 consecutive laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery procedures were prospectively analyzed for ...
Ramsey M. Dallal, Linda Bailey
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Beriberi after gastric bypass surgery in adolescence
The Journal of Pediatrics, 2004We report three cases of dry beriberi in adolescents who underwent gastric bypass surgery for clinically severe obesity. The key to successful treatment of this problem lies in prompt recognition and thiamine supplementation.
Stephen R. Daniels +6 more
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