Background and Objective: Obesity is one of the problems associated with cardiovascular complications. Patients' heart function improves after sleeve gastrectomy. Global Longitudinal Strain (GLS) is one of the methods used to monitor heart function before and after sleeve gastrectomy.  In this study, we evaluated the echocardiographic parameters pre and post sleeve gastrectomy. Materials and M...

â  zygomycosis is regarded as a rare fetal infection in diabetics and other immunocompromised patients. the usual manifestations of this infection are: rhinosinusitis, pansinusitis, rhino-orbital and rhiâ­nocerebral. primary gastrointestinal (gi) zygomycosis is a rare disâ­ease with a high mortality rate. the stomach is the most common site involved in gi mucormycosis. there are few reported ca...

Total gastrectomy is one of the most common operative procedures for gastric malignancy, but therecommended method of gastrointestinal reconstruction after gastrectomy is still controversial. Significantweight loss has been noted by many observers following gastrectomy. The Roux-en-Y method is the mostfrequent reconstructive technique performed after gastrectomy. This technique is easy to perfo...

BACKGROUND The utility and problems including the socioeconomic aspect of laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer have not been fully evaluated. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We compared open distal gastrectomy and laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy for the clinical benefit, quality of life, and problems of operation cost by the reference documents in which the difference betwe...

background laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (lsg) has become popular both as a definitive and a staged procedure for morbid obesity. gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd) is a common co-morbid disease in bariatric patients.rn patients and methods the participants in the study were twenty patients, 14 women and 6 men, with a mean body mass index of 43.4 ± 1.9 kg/m2 and mean age of 47 years. all ...

PURPOSE To define the role of robotic gastrectomy for the treatment of gastric cancer, the present systematic review with meta-analysis was performed. MATERIALS AND METHODS A comprehensive search up to July 2012 was conducted on PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library. All eligible studies comparing robotic gastrectomy versus laparoscopic gastrectomy or open gastrectomy were included. RESU...

PURPOSE The aims of this study were to make serial comparisons of the quality of life (QoL) between patients who underwent total gastrectomy and those who underwent distal subtotal gastrectomy for gastric cancer and to identify the affected scales with consistency. MATERIALS AND METHODS QoL data of 275 patients who were admitted for surgery between September 2008 and June 2011 and who underwe...

PURPOSE THE AIMS ARE TO: (i) display the multidimensional learning curve of totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy, and (ii) verify the feasibility of totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy after learning curve completion by comparing it with laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS From January 2005 to June 2012, 247 patients who underwent laparoscopy-assisted distal ...