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Outcome of pregnancy in the morbidly obese woman

South African Family Practice, 2009
Background: Obesity is a growing global health problem. In South Africa, more than half of the adult women are overweight and almost 30% are obese. The problems associated with obesity, such as diabetes, hypertension, thrombo-embolism and coronary heart ...
Eugene Ngoga, David Hall, Fredd Mattheyse, Debby Grové   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effect of morbid obesity (BMI ≥ 35 kg/m2) on functional outcome and complication rate following unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: a case-control study

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, 2019
Background The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the functional outcomes and complication rates of patients in short-term and midterm follow-up period when medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA)-applied patients were grouped ...
Ayşe Esin Polat, Barış Polat, Tahsin Gürpınar, Engin Çarkçı, Olcay Güler   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bariatric Surgery in Morbidly Obese Adolescents: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Obesity Surgery, 2015
Pubmed, Embase, and Cochrane were systematically reviewed for available evidence on bariatric surgery in adolescents. Thirty-seven included studies evaluated the effect of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB), Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB ...
G. Paulus, Loes de Vaan, F. Verdam, N. Bouvy, Ton A W Ambergen, L. V. van Heurn   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Improvements in Health‐Related Quality of Life With Treat‐to‐Target Urate‐Lowering Therapy in Gout: A Post Hoc Analysis of a Randomized Multicenter Trial

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Although treat‐to‐target urate‐lowering therapy (ULT) is endorsed as best practice in gout management, limited data exist on its impact on health‐related quality of life (HRQoL). We assessed the impact of treat‐to‐target ULT on HRQoL among participants receiving protocolized gout care, identifying factors associated with HRQoL and HRQoL ...
Austin Barry, Bryant R. England, Harlan Sayles, Lindsay N. Helget, Maria Androsenko, Hongsheng Wu, Kaleb Michaud, Bridget Kramer, Jeff A. Newcomb, Mary T. Brophy, Anne Davis‐Karim, Ryan Ferguson, Michael H. Pillinger, Tuhina Neogi, Paul M. Palevsky, James R. O'Dell, Ted R. Mikuls   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Serum Arylesterase, Paraoxonase, and Lactonase Activities and Paraoxonase-1 Concentrations in Morbidly Obese Patients and Their Relationship with Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis

Antioxidants, 2023
Paraoxonase-1 (PON1) is an antioxidant enzyme associated with high-density lipoproteins (HDL). Reduced serum PON1 activity is found in diseases marked by oxidative stress and inflammation, but its role in obesity remains unclear.
Helena Castañé, Andrea Jiménez-Franco, Cristian Martínez-Navidad, Cristina Placed-Gallego, Vicente Cambra-Cortés, Adelina-Miruna Perta, Marta París, Daniel del Castillo, Meritxell Arenas, Jordi Camps, Jorge Joven   +10 more
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Hiatoplasty with crura buttressing versus hiatoplasty alone during laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy [PDF]

, 2017
Introduction. In obese patients with hiatal hernia (HH), laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) with cruroplasty is an option but use of prosthetic mesh crura reinforcement is debated.
Badiali, Danilo, Balla, Andrea, Paganini, Alessandro M., Palmieri, Livia, Quaresima, Silvia, Seitaj, Ardit, Ursi, Pietro   +6 more
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Clinical Conditions Associated With a High Antinuclear Antibody Titer in Individuals Without Autoimmune Disease

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Antinuclear antibodies (ANAs) are present at high titers in 2% of the general population, but their clinical significance in individuals without an autoimmune (AI) disease is not known. We tested the hypothesis that the presence of a high ANA titer in non‐AI conditions is associated with disease.
Matthew Chung, John P. Shelley, Gul Karakoc, John Still, Xiaodi Ruan, Jonathan Mosley, C. Michael Stein, Vivian K. Kawai   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

European guidelines from the EHTG and ESCP for Lynch syndrome: an updated third edition of the Mallorca guidelines based on gene and gender

BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
Recommendations for clinical and molecular identification of LS, surgical and endoscopic management of LS‐associated colorectal cancer and preventive measures for cancer were produced. The emphasis was on surgical and gastroenterological aspects of the cancer spectrum.
T. T. Seppälä, A. Latchford, I. Negoi, A. Sampaio Soares, R. Jimenez‐Rodriguez, L. Sánchez‐Guillén, D. G. Evans, N. Ryan, E. J. Crosbie, M. Dominguez‐Valentin, J. Burn, M. Kloor, M. von Knebel Doeberitz, F. J. B. van Duijnhoven, P. Quirke, J. R. Sampson, P. Møller, G. Möslein, on behalf of the European Hereditary Tumour Group (EHTG) and European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP)   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hip arthroplasty in obese patients: rising prevalence – standard procedures?

Orthopedic Reviews, 2016
We examined our experience and, in particular, complications associated with total hip arthroplasty in obese and morbidly obese patients. We prospectively gathered 50 patients in a matched control series including 25 obese and morbidly obese patients ...
Michael Skutek, Nils Wirries, Gabriela von Lewinski   +2 more
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Salvage of infected implant-based breast reconstructions in morbidly obese patients with explantation and replacement with an autologous muscle-sparing latissimus dorsi flap

JPRAS Open, 2022
Morbidly obese patients who undergo reconstruction with implants after mastectomy are at higher risk of reconstructive failure. Prosthetic infection historically required explantation with plans for delayed implant-based reconstruction or conversion to ...
Jean-Claude D. Schwartz
doaj   +1 more source