... patients with morbid obesity conducted in the Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center. The patients underwent one of the three types of bariatric surgeries including laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG), Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), and one-anastomosis gastric bypass (OAGB), who had been followed...

... and anesthesiologic issues. Several bridging therapies have been proposed to increase preoperative weight loss and decrease perioperative morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy and safety of different two-stage approaches in super-obese patients: laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy...

... during the post-surgery period. Methods: This retrospective study used the Iran National Obesity Surgery Database. Patients with clinically severe obesity aged 18–70 undergoing sleeve gastrectomy participated in this study. Body mass index (BMI) reduction and 5 other metrics measured over the study...

...Daniel Moritz Felsenreich; Evi Artemiou; Lukas Wintersteller; Julia Jedamzik; Jakob Eichelter; Lisa Gensthaler; Christoph Bichler; Christoph Sperker; Philipp Beckerhinn; Ivan Kristo; Felix Benedikt Langer; Gerhard Prager Introduction: Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) is the most common bariatric operation...

... of endocrinological causes, and a nutritional consultation. During laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, a cardiac technician was present to support the anesthetist. After inserting 3 trocars with no complications, the greater curvature was mobilized using Medtronic’s bipolar electrothermal vessel-sealing instrument...

... medical therapy and bariatric surgery. The purpose of this study was to compare the impact of weight loss achieved through conventional medical therapy or laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) on albuminuria in Japanese subjects with severe obesity and identify the factors involved. Methods: We...

... surgery, 485 patients completed follow-up. This number decreased to 114 patients in year 2, and 80 patients in year 3. Overall, 42.7% ( n = 207) underwent sleeve gastrectomy, 43.7% ( n = 211) Roux-en-Y-gastric bypass, and 13.9% ( n = 67) gastric banding. The following deficits were found (year 1/2/3...

...Cheng Huang; Qiong Wang; Qin Zhang; Biao Zhou; Jun Lin; Hua Meng Background: While bariatric surgery could result in weight loss as well as glycaemia improvement, the short-term impact on bone health in a high glycemic environment following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) and sleeve gastrectomy (SG...

... bariatric procedures, i.e., sleeve gastrectomy (SG) and gastric bypass (RYGB), using visual analytics. Methods: Both pre- and postsurgical (6, 12, and 24 months) data of all patients who underwent primary bariatric surgery were collected retrospectively. The distribution and evolution of different...

...Julian Bühler; Silvan Rast; Christoph Beglinger; Ralph Peterli; Thomas Peters; Martina Gebhart; Anne Christin Meyer-Gerspach; Bettina Karin Wölnerhanssen Background: Currently, the two most common bariatric procedures are laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric...

...Atsuhito Saiki; Rieko Kanai; Shoko Nakamura; Sho Tanaka; Rena Oka; Yasuhiro Watanabe; Takashi Yamaguchi; Masahiro Ohira; Takashi Oshiro; Karin Hayashi; Ichiro Tatsuno Objectives: Bariatric surgery is the most effective weight loss therapy, and recently laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG...

...Sonja Chiappetta; Christine Stier; Mohamed Ajan Hadid; Nina Malo; Sophia Theodoridou; Rudolf Weiner; Sylvia Weiner Background: The hypothesis of “cross-addiction” has never been validated, and numerous aspects speak against it. Objectives: To compare the differences between sleeve gastrectomy (SG...

... to be determined. Materials and Methods: We reviewed our database and identified all patients aged 65 or older who underwent sleeve gastrectomy between May 2010 and November 2015. We documented patient demographics, obesity-related comorbidities, body mass index (BMI) before and after the procedure, percent excess...

...Daniel Moritz Felsenreich; Gerhard Prager; Ronald Kefurt; Magdalena Eilenberg; Julia Jedamzik; Philipp Beckerhinn; Christoph Bichler; Christoph Sperker; Michael Krebs; Felix Benedikt Langer Objective: Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) has recently become the most commonly applied bariatric procedure...

...Oliver Scheffel; Rudolf A. Weiner Aim: The growing enthusiasm to perform laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) in morbidly obese patients exposes also the complications associated with this type of surgery. LSG is not only performed in super-super-obese patients, but in addition has also its...

...Rudolf A. Weiner; Sophia Theodoridou; Sylvia Weiner Background: Worldwide, the incidence of morbid obesity is increasing, and surgery is the only effective longterm treatment. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is associated with acceptable weight loss and reduced comorbidities. It is considered...

...Wojciech Konrad Karcz; Goran Marjanovic; Jodok Grueneberger; Tobias Baumann; Waleed Bukhari; Daniel Krawczykowski; Simon Kuesters Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) has been described as the first step of a two-step laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) or biliopancreatic diversion...

...Markos Daskalakis; Rudolf A. Weiner Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) was initially described as a first-step procedure followed by either biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch or Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in super-super-obese patients. Multiple recent reports have documented SG as single therapy...

...% (overall). Conclusion: As indicated by the worldwide trend, there is an ongoing change from GB to sleeve gastrectomy (SG) and malabsorptive procedures. The BMI of German bariatric surgical patients is substantially higher than that of patients from most other countries. There were no differences in overall...