Impact of Laparoscopic Sleeve G ...
Gastric bypass (GBP) has proved its efficacy 30 years ago in the management of diabetes mellitus (T2DM) for severe obese patients. More recently, in ...
The Gastric Sleeve: Losing Weig ...
Background Recently, the laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) has become popular as a single-stage procedure for the treatment of morbid obesity an ...
Relative Outcome Measures for B ...
Background Bariatric results expressed in the relative measure excess weight loss (%EWL) vary significantly by initial body mass index (BMI): the he ...
Laparoscopic Reinforced Sleeve ...
Background Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) was pioneered as a twostage intervention for super and super-super obesity to minimize morbidity and mortality; i ...
Smaller Staple Height for Circu ...
Background Anastomotic leaks, stenosis, and bleeding from the gastrojejunal anastomosis (GJA) after gastric bypass may carry high morbidity and mort ...
Prophylactic Inferior Vena Cava ...
Background Bariatric patients are at significant risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE) and a subset may benefit from retrievable inferior vena cava ...
Gastric Band Erosion in 63 Case ...
Background Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) remains the most popular bariatric procedure performed in Australia and Europe. Gastric ba ...
Dental anomalies in the primary ...
This study investigated the recurrence in the permanent dentition of dental anomalies of the primary dentition. A sample of 189 subjects (100 males, ...
Plerixafor in non-Hodgkin’s lym ...
Autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) is the standard of care for multiple myeloma (MM) and relapsing non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) patients. ...
BRCA1 gene expression in relati ...
The tumor suppressor gene, BRCA1 has been conferred to increase the susceptibility to breast cancer in younger women. This work studied the expressi ...
Lengthening Osteotomy for Clavi ...
Objective Restoration of clavicular length by osteotomy, interposition of an iliac crest autograft, and plate fixation to correct glenohumeral and ...
Arthroscopic Meniscal Repair U ...
Objective Repair of meniscal tears to restore meniscal shape and function as well as to preserve meniscal chondroprotective and knee-stabilizing pr ...
Prevalent vertebral fractures p ...
Summary The relationship between prevalent vertebral fractures and new vertebral fractures in Korean women has not been previously studied. We found ...
Effects of COLIA1 polymorphisms ...
Summary One thousand seven hundred seventeen perimenopausal women from the Danish Osteoporosis Prevention Study were genotyped for the -1997G/T, -16 ...
Alteration of vitamin D metabol ...
Summary This study aimed to delineate the mechanism involved in type 1 diabetes-induced bone loss. The results revealed the alteration of vitamin D ...
Safety and tolerability of baze ...
Summary Findings from this 5-year phase 3 study of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis showed that bazedoxifene was associated with an overall fa ...
Distal radius geometry and skel ...
Summary Development of optimal skeletal strength should decrease adult bone fragility. Nongymnasts (NON) were compared with girls exposed to gymnast ...
Effects of raloxifene and alend ...
Summary Raloxifene decreases PINP into the lower half of the premenopausal reference interval; alendronate decreases PINP more, with approximately 6 ...
Macroscopic and microscopic pro ...
The growth of each type of callus (cortical, medullary and periosteal) depends on the mechanical condition of fracture fixation (elastic fixation an ...
Risedronate in adults with oste ...
Summary Bisphosphonates can increase bone mineral density (BMD) in children with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). In this study of adults with OI type ...
Seasonal variation of serum 25- ...
Summary Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at risk of osteoporosis. Vitamin D (vitD) deficiency is known as a risk factor of osteopo ...
UGT2B17 gene deletion associate ...
Summary UGT2B17 is one of the most important enzymes for androgen metabolism. In addition, the UGT2B17 gene is one of the most commonly deleted regi ...
Changes in first hip fracture r ...
Summary We determined age-standardized first hip fracture rates in British Columbia between 1990 and 2004. We found sex and fracture type rates in k ...
A case of posterior element fra ...
Kummell's disease is a rare, delayed posttraumatic collapse of a vertebral body that can occur several months or even years after an osteoporotic co ...
Fracture risk and adjuvant horm ...
Summary The risk of hip and other fractures was examined among a population-based group of older women with breast cancer. Women using aromatase inh ...