Research led by the Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany has ...

Purpose Pharmacokinetic considerations in patients who have undergone Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) are explored. Summary The prevalence of obesity, especially morbid obesity, has dramatically ...

Sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass were associated with about five-times more weight loss than weekly injections of GLP-1 ...

Pharmacokinetic Considerations in Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Patients April Smith; Brian Henriksen; Andrew Cohen Disclosures Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2011;68 (23):2241-2247.

The higher a person’s body mass index (BMI), the higher their risk for complications after bariatric surgery, such as higher ...

Researchers said longitudinal studies are critical to refine and optimize the management of metabolic dysfunction–associated ...

Introduction: Intraoperative indocyanine green (ICG) is increasingly used in surgery. In metabolic and bariatric surgery, it allows visualization of the tissues and blood supply to anastomoses in real ...

The study gives new insights into the risks associated with each BMI category and identifies the inflection point for increased risk of morbidity and mortality, which occurs when ...

Black patients have a higher incidence of minor complications after metabolic and bariatric surgery, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Metabolic and ...