Background: Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery is an effective treatment for obesity. However, the incidence and long-term risk of hypoglycemia after surgery in patients without diabetes remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of hypoglycemia following RYGB surgery in ...
Using ICD-9-CM codes to assess baseline health may underestimate comorbidity prevalence. The PBS definitions for T2DM relapse and remission rely on medication-prescribing data. To the extent that prescriptions were not filled, medication use may be overestimated. Some patients may have had T2DM ...
Concomitant cholecystectomy and laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery have decreased significantly over the last decade. Given the higher rates of postoperative complications, reinterventions, mortality, as well as longer hospital stay, concomitant cholecystectomy should only be considered in patients with symptom...
This cohort study compares the risk of operative and nonoperative interventions up to 4 years after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass vs vertical sleeve
however, few population-based studies have considered the effectiveness of lrygb compared with orygb in terms of patient safety because international classification of diseases, ninth revision, clinical modification (icd-9-cm) laparoscopic codes for gastric bypass surgery were not available until 2004 ...
Table 1 Detail of ICD-9-CM diagnosis and procedure codes Full size table Patients diagnosed with gastric cancer before 1 January 2000 were excluded to ensure that the gastric cancer was newly diagnosed. Patients were also excluded if they were (1) younger than 18 years, (2) had a history ...
H OH metabolites OH Article Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery Induces Distinct but Frequently Transient Effects on Acylcarnitine, Bile Acid and Phospholipid Levels Jarlei Fiamoncini 1,2,† , Carina Fernandes Barbosa 3,†, José Rubens Arnoni Junior 3, José Celestino Araújo Junior 3, Cinthia...
Then, irradiations were performed bilaterally using an anterior- posterior/posterior-anterior (AP/PA) geometry with a custom 4 cm collimator at a source- to-axis distance of 35 cm. The stage was translated from one animal to the next for one field, then the gantry was rotated, and the ...