Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is used increasingly for obesity treatment. The most important complications of this procedure are bleeding and staple line leak. In this article, a 44-year-old female patient who developed a leak at the gastro-oesophageal junction following a revision laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is presented. The leak was recognized by computerized tomography and fluoroscopy...

Synchronous resection of primary neuroendocrine tumors (NET) with liver metastases remains controversial, although recent studies have demonstrated its safety in select patients. Synchronous laparoscopic gastric and liver resection has been rarely reported. We report the case of a 65-year-old man who underwent successful simultaneous D2 subtotal gastrectomy with hepatectomy and cholecystectomy ...

The absorption of (47)Ca Cl(2) taken with a milk and porridge meal was measured in normal subjects, patients with a partial gastrectomy, and patients with malabsorption. The addition of palm oil to the meal depressed calcium absorption, whereas the addition of medium-chain triglyceride had no effect. The contrasting effect of the two fats on calcium absorption was most marked in patients with a...

Gastric cancer with pregnancy is rare and usually presents in late and advanced stage. Standard interventions in diagnosing, staging and treatment of cancer may be harmful for the fetus. The treatment of cancer in pregnancy should not differ significantly from the treatment in nonpregnant women. There have been case reports of open gastrectomy for gastric cancer in pregnancy. We present a case ...

Among the existing weight-loss procedures, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy has gained increasing popularity in the past decade, due to its remarkable results concerning EWL and resolution of comorbidities. Also because it seems fast and easy and doesn’t have the burden of often visits and adjustments as it used to be with the cases of gastric banding. However, most of major concerns for a team ...

Abstract Background Obesity has become an increasingly important global health problem. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is the most widely performed bariatric surgery. Aim of Work To evaluate patients who failed to lose weight or regained after perfonning and how manage them. Patients Methods This study been conducted at Ain Shams university hospital (Al Demerdash hospital) University. a prospe...

BACKGROUND: Obesity is a risk factor happening liver fibrosis because it makes presence of oxidative stress and inflammation that has role on pathogenesis hepatic progression. Until this moment, disease management still focused for treat primary, the most rational transplant, however number success transplant lower from kidneys, only 70-80% recipients survived at least 1 year, so sleeve gastrec...

Gastric adenocarcinoma and proximal polyposis of the stomach (GAPPS) was first proposed by Wothley et al. in 2012 as a rare familial gastric cancer syndrome associated with an autosomal dominant form inheritance. GAPPS is characterized basal gland from hilum to body stomach. Li 2016 showed that cause disease point mutation promotor 1B region APC gene, genetic testing used confirm diagnosis. If ...

Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by laparoscopic distal gastrectomy in advanced gastric cancer: A case report and review of literature

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to compare the surgical and long-term outcomes of laparoscopic and open gastrectomy with radical intent for locally advanced gastric carcinoma in case-controlled patient groups using the propensity score. METHODS Between January 2009 and December 2014, 389 patients who underwent gastrectomy with radical intent for locally advanced gastric carcinoma were enrol...