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Bariatric Surgery Worldwide

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The article was published on 2017-01-01. It has received 818 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sleeve gastrectomy.

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The Effectiveness and Safety of Barbed Sutures in the Bariatric Surgery: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

TL;DR: Although quality of all the studies was relatively moderate and the number of the included studies was limited, the barbed suture may have the potentiality to be an effective and reliable technique and extend the application in other bariatric surgeries.
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Evolution of biliopancreatic diversion in the treatment of morbid obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus

TL;DR: Given the effectiveness of the procedure, it is necessary to increase the number and duration of observations made to enable further insight into the long-term efficacy and use of the SADI procedure.
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Preservation of Fat-Free Mass After Bariatric Surgery: Our Point of View

TL;DR: Concerns have been raised that bariatric surgery yields a catabolic state, with significant nutritional risks, such as a greater and rapid weight loss that may be accompanied by significant loss of FFM, and one of the key nutritional issues in patients scheduled for BS should be to measure body composition before and after surgery to quantify changes in FM and FFM.
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A Stepwise Approach in Learning Surgical Residents a Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

TL;DR: The stepwise LRYGB-training program can result in an efficient and safe way to approach the learning curve to the level of the EBS, and could act as a guideline for the development of such training programs.
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Impact of bariatric surgery in patients with HIV infection: a nationwide inpatient sample analysis, 2004-2014

TL;DR: Though initially underutilized, bariatric surgery in morbidly obese HIV patients is increasing and appears to be well tolerated and effective in significantly reducing life-threatening morbidity.
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Metabolic/Bariatric Surgery Worldwide 2011

TL;DR: The salient message of the 2011 assessment is that SG has markedly increased in prevalence, and the trends from the four IFSO regions differed, except for the universal increase in SG.
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Bariatric Surgery Worldwide 2013.

TL;DR: SG is currently the most frequently performed procedure in the USA/Canada and in the Asia/Pacific regions, and second to RYGB in the Europe and Latin/South America regions.
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Surgery for weight loss in adults

TL;DR: All seven RCTs comparing surgery with non-surgical interventions found benefits of surgery on measures of weight change at one to two years follow-up and Improvements for some aspects of health-related quality of life (QoL) and diabetes were also found; the overall quality of the evidence was moderate.
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The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of bariatric (weight loss) surgery for obesity: a systematic review and economic evaluation

TL;DR: Bariatric surgery was a more effective intervention for weight loss than non-surgical options and there was higher remission of Type 2 diabetes than in non-Surgical groups.
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Metabolic/Bariatric Surgery Worldwide 2008

TL;DR: The absolute growth rate of bariatric surgery decreased over the past 5 years (135% increase), in comparison to the preceding 5 years (266% increase).
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