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(2010-04)Achalasia is uncommon in morbidly obese patients. We report two patients with both conditions. A 71 years old diabetic male with a body mass index (BMI) of 36 kg/m2. He consulted for dysphagia and a manometry showed a lack ...
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(SPRINGER WIEN, 2008-10)BACKGROUND: Surgical treatment in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) without Barrett's esophagus (BE) is an excellent alternative therapy to medical treatment, preventing the development of complications ...
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(2002)Benign esophageal stricture is a serious complication of persistent gastroesophageal reflux in patients with esophagitis and Barrett's esophagus. A classification of the severity of the stricture is proposed, based on its ...
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(1993)The recurrence of reflux esophagitis after antireflux surgery ranges between 5 and 25% according to the technique employed. The clinical, laboratory findings and the surgical alternatives were analyzed in patients with ...
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(2013)Background: Sleeve gastrectomy is one of the most commonly used bariatric surgical procedures. Aim: To analyze clinical and laboratory manifestations and management of leaks after sleeve gastrectomy. Material and Methods: ...
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(2002)The usual surgical treatment for patients with Barrett's esophagus (BE) is a classic Nissen fundoplication or posterior gastropexy with cardial calibration. However, some surgical reports as well as our experience suggest ...
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Efecto de la gastrectomía tubular vertical en los niveles de ghrelina plasmática en pacientes obesos (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2015)Background: Plasma ghrelin levels may decrease after vertical sleeve gastrectomy, probably due to the excision of a large portion of the gastric fundus. It is worth exploring the long term effects of this surgical procedure ...
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(2002)It is well known that in patients with Barrett's esophagus (BE), even after antireflux surgery, intestinal metaplasia can progress to dysplasia or even adenocarcinoma. However, the opposite - that is regression of dysplastic ...
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(2009)Sterol receptor element-binding protein-1c (SREBP-1c) and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-α (PPAR-α) mRNA expression was assessed in liver as signaling mechanisms associated with steatosis in obese patients. ...
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(2009)Background: Sleeve gastrectomy is a restrictive procedure for treatment of obese patients with different body mass index (BMI) and presents good results in terms of a reduction of percentage of excess weight loss and BMI. ...
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(2009)Background: One of the most serious complications after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is gastric leak. Few publications exist concerning the treatment of gastric leak. We sought to determine by way of a prospective ...
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(Springer Science+Business, 2013-04-21)Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is an effective bariatric procedure. The objective of this study is to describe a series of patients who were subjected to LSG and then developed gastric stenosis, with an emphasis ...
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(Springer, 2015)Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and/or hiatus hernia (HH) are one of the most common disorders of the upper gastrointestinal tract. Despite the positive effect of sleeve gastrectomy (SG) regarding weight loss and ...
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(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers, 1985)A prospective study was performed in 17 patients with achalasia of the esophagus determining the manometric characteristics of the gastroesophageal sphincter, correlating in with hisotological analysis by biopsies taken ...
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Hallazgos histológicos gástricos en obesos morbidos sometidos a gastrectomía vertical laparoscópica (Sociedad de Cirujanos de Chile, 2014)Introducción: La gastrectomía vertical laparoscópica (GVL) es un procedimiento quirúrgico efectivo en el tratamiento de la obesidad. La obesidad está asociada con algunas comorbilidades como diabetes, dislipidemia y ...
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(Elsevier España, 2013-04-06)Introduction: There is controversy in the literature about the choice of expectant medical treatment versus surgical treatment of hiatal hernias, depending on the presence or absence of symptoms. This study presents the ...
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(Colegio Brasileiro Cirurgia Digestiva-CBCD, 2020)Background: Erosion and migration into the esophagogastric lumen after laparoscopic hiatal hernia repair with mesh placement has been published. Aim: To present surgical maneuvers that seek to diminish the risk of this ...
