Nineteen symptoms were evaluated using the Gastro-Intestinal Quality of Life Index (GIQLI) and each item is quoted from 0 to 4 (from the worst to the best option). Results Preoperative GIQLI scores were similar in the two groups. At five years after surgery, the mean GIQLI score was ...
Carabotti M, Severi C, Leonetti F, De Angelis F, Iorio O, Corazziari E, et al. Upper gastrointestinal symptoms in obese patients and their outcomes after bariatric surgery. Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 2013;7:115–126.Carabotti M, Severi C, Leonetti F, De Angelis F, Iorio O, ...
"This tells us thatbariatric surgerymay become part of the treatment of patients with heart failure and obesity if there are no major contraindications for the surgery - and that this might be especially important for patients with significant obesity," says the study's lead investigator, cardiolog...
A 1991 National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference concluded that severely obese adults could be eligible for bariatric surgery if they had a body mass index (BMI) > or =35 kg/m(2) with or > or =40 kg/m(2) without obesity comorbidity. It was thought at that time that there wer...
Place of upper endoscopy before and after bariatric surgery: A multicenter experience with 3219 patients Aim: To study the preoperative and postoperative role of upper esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) in morbidly obese patients. Methods: This is a multicenter ... MEA Ellatif,H Alfalah,WA Asker...
Less research has been conducted on psychological factors post-surgically, therefore much less is known about the course of anxiety and depression symptoms after bariatric surgery. Depression has been shown to improve after bariatric surgery. In a sample of low-income patients who completed the Beck...
Complications arise in about 10-20% of cases, with serious complications arising in the first 30 days after surgery in 2-4% of cases, depending largely on the experience of the surgeon. Bariatric surgery is one of the fastest growing hospital procedures performed in the United States, with so...
For instance, in a UK study involving about 2500 patients with type 2 diabetes, researchers found an 18-fold increased chance of diabetes remission after bariatric surgery in comparison with patients not undergoing surgery, according to a 2015 study published in the journal JAMA Surgery. Another ...
There was significant weight loss and reduction of BMI after surgery ( P Conclusions The study confirms the improvement in LUTS after weight loss but there is no correlation between the improvement and the time course or degree of weight loss. Rather there is a suggestion that the improvement ...
Changes in quality of life after balloon treatment followed by gastric banding in severely obese patients--the use of two different quality of life questio... Background Improvements in quality of life (QOL) obtained by weight loss have mainly been reported after bariatric surgery. QOL has not...