Like people, words have birthdays. My definition of the birthday of a word is the year in which it first appeared in a written text, as, for example, documented in the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ...

Gastrointestinal Complications of Bariatric Surgery . Complications of bariatric surgery can be separated into "true" complications associated with the operation and "side effects" associated with ...

A jejunojejunostomy was made approximately 15 cm. below the attachment of the jejunum to the liver. Two Penrose drains were inserted beneath the anastomosis and brought out through the wound.

KOLKATA: A 52-year-old patient who had gallstones that eat up the bile duct and who was suffering from severe complications due to the condition underwent a complex surgery in a Kolkata hospital ...

) More than half of the internal hernias occur in the jejunojejunostomy mesentery, followed by Petersen's space hernia. When it presents with herniated limb, it can be twisted accompanied by the ...

Patients show an elevated postprandial satiety gut hormone release after Roux-en-Y Gastric bypass (gastric bypass). The altered gut hormone response appears to have a prominent role in the ...

Closure of mesenteric defects during laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass reduced the long-term risk for small bowel obstruction, according to study results in JAMA Surgery.“One of the most ...

1) Sleeve gastrectomy and RYGB can both be performed safely and with low perioperative risk in adult patients undergoing primary bariatric surgery; 2) Many patients having postprandial pain, nausea, ...

1 Department of Pediatric Surgery, Fujian Provincial Hospital, Fuzhou, China; 2 Shengli Clinical Medical College of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China; Objective: We introduce the ...

The experience and expertise cultivated within a "regionalized" gastric cancer center appears to improve patient outcomes in this difficult tumor type, which has a relatively low 5-year survival ...

Jejunojejunostomy was then performed and the mesentery sutured closed. The number of vascular arcades and time to ligate using NCT were recorded. At 2 weeks, horses underwent repeat celiotomy to ...