First off, its a surgery of the stomach, the gastric sleeve surgeon will eliminate almost 80 percent of patient’s stomach. This reshapes the stomach into a tube like shape hence where the surgery name comes from sleeve surgery. This is a laparoscopic surgery, meaning the surgeon will only ...
When I started this thread I was going to have the RnY & then had to change doctors 3 weeks before the surgery was scheduled and ended up doing the sleeve. True to all of you terrific supporters, it is getting better each day. Am 9 weeks post surgery today and down 34 pounds. Introd...
in the rats. In lean rats, a gastric load of glucose induces a rapid and parallel rise in GLP-1 levels in both the gastric and the portal veins. This rise in portal GLP-1 levels was abrogated in HFD obese rats but restored after vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG) surgery. Finally, ...
Organoids were grown in 96-well plates and treated with epirubicin, oxaliplatin, or 5-FU (EOX) (Selleckchem, Houston, TX) at concentrations of 0, 0.5, 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, and 200 μmol/L for 48 hours. In a separate series of experiments, organoids were pretreated with HER2 inhibit...
Learning Curves of Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy in Bariatric Surgery: a Systematic Review and Introduction of a Standardization Article 29 October 2019 Abbreviations ACTH: Adrenocorticotropic hormone BMI: Body mass index BOLD: Bariatric outcomes longitudinal database ...