RESULTSdGlycemic control improved in all three groups at 24months (N5 54), with amean HbA1c of 6.76 1.2% for gastric bypass, 7.16 0.8% for sleeve gastrectomy, and 8.46 2.3% for IMT (P , 0.05 for each surgical group versus IMT). Reduction in body fat was similar for both surgery groups, with greater absolute reduction in truncal fat in gastric bypass versus sleeve gastrectomy (216 vs.210%; P5 0....

WATANABE, Y., ODA, M., SHIMIZU, J., HAYASHI, Y., OHTA, Y., IWA, T., TONAMI, N. and HISADA, K. Functional Advantage of Parenchymal-Sparing Surgery for Early Hilar Lung Cancer. Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 1991, 163 (2), 135148 In a group of 27 patients with early hilar lung cancer, standard sleeve lobectomy was performed in 14 cases, standard lobectomy in 9 cases, and another 4 patients underwent parenc...

Bronchial sleeve resections are technically demanding procedures compared with lobectomies. In case of bronchial anastomotic dehiscence, secondary pneumonectomy is the treatment of choice. However, a secondary pneumonectomy is usually associated with high morbidity and mortality. Here, we first report, to the best of our knowledge, a secondary lingular sleeve resection following bronchial anast...

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 ...

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...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this in-vitro study was to compare the tolerance of surgical instruments in surgical guides produced by 3-D printing, without metal sleeves to a surgical guide with conventional metal sleeves from two different manufacturers. MATERIALS AND METHODS Lateral movements of drill tips caused by tolerance between the sleeve and drill key and between the drill key and the drill w...

Background: A new endoscopically and fluoroscopically placed duodenal-jejunal bypass device developed for weight loss is a 60cm flouropolymer sheath, which expands and anchors in the duodenal bulb via barbs. A prior small uncontrolled trial found short-term weight loss in obese recipients. Objective: To test the duodenal-jejunal sleeve in a randomized controlled trial. Design: Open label, claim...

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 ...

Tests on 12 grouted splices were performed to investigate their deformation properties under tensile loading. Test variables included diameter and type of spliced bars and the size of splicing sleeves. Finite element method based models of the splices were built, verified and used to investigate the effect of sleeve length on the deformation properties of the grouted splices. The sleeve length ...

The cycle time and number of chambers in the pneumatic sleeve may influence the outcome of lymphedema therapy with intermittent compression devices. The aim of our study was to assess efficacy of several commonly used different IPC protocols on edema volume reduction in women with postmastectomy lymphedema. Fixty-seven (57) women with secondary arm lymphedema (age 39-80) were selected to the st...