OBJECTIVE The authors tested the hypothesis that patients with metabolic syndrome are more likely to develop short-term cognitive dysfunction after cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. DESIGN A prospective study. SETTING Veterans Affairs medical center. PARTICIPANTS Fifty-six age- and education-balanced patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (28 p...

BACKGROUND In primary mitral regurgitation (MR), exercise echocardiography aids in symptom evaluation and timing of mitral valve (MV) surgery. In patients with grade ≥3 primary MR undergoing exercise echocardiography followed by MV surgery, we sought to assess predictors of outcomes and whether delaying MV surgery adversely affects outcomes. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied 576 consecutive such...

American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery position statement on intragastric balloon therapy endorsed by the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons Mohamed R. Ali, M.D.*, Fady Moustarah, M.D., Julie J. Kim, M.D., on behalf of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Clinical Issues Committee Department of Surgery, University of California-Davis M...

The joint position paper by Polish Society of Hypertension, for the Treatment Obesity, Lipid Association, Association Study Liver, Family Medicine, Lifestyle Division Prevention and Epidemiology Cardiac Society, “Club 30” Metabolic Bariatric Surgery Surgeons Reviewers: Agnieszka Olszanecka, Krzysztof J. Filipiak

The following position statement is issued by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery for enhancing quality of care in bariatric surgery. In this statement, suggestions for management are presented that are derived from available knowledge, peer-reviewed scientific literature and expert opinion regarding monitoring and treatment of metabolic bone changes after bariatric surgery...

Bariatric surgery, also known as metabolic surgery, is an effective treatment for morbid obesity, which also offers pronounced metabolic effects including the resolution of type 2 diabetes and a decrease in cardiovascular disease and long-term cancer risk. However, the mechanisms of surgical weight loss and the long-term consequences of bariatric surgery remain unclear. Bariatric surgery has be...

 Abstract Background: The thyroid hormones influence on all metabolic pathways. After heart surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), serum T3 decreases and remains low for at least 24 hours. Several studies on pediatric have reported reduction of thyroid hormones after heart surgery. This study aimed to investigate the status of thyroid function tests in children with CPB surgery. Metho...

OBJECTIVE Global usage of bariatric surgery has been dictated for the past quarter century by National Institutes of Health recommendations restricting these operations to individuals with a BMI ≥35 kg/m(2). Strong evidence now demonstrates that bariatric procedures markedly improve or cause remission of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), in part through weight-independent mechanisms, and that ba...