Bariatric Surgery
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Medically suspect criterion can determine bariatric surgery coverage
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Consider risk for Barrett’s esophagus after bariatric surgery
Rates of erosive esophagitis were also a concern, with increases of 13% each year following sleeve gastrectomy.
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Bariatric surgery gives 10-year cure for some advanced diabetes
These results provide “the most robust scientific evidence yet that full-blown type 2 diabetes is a curable disease, not inevitably progressive,...
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Bariatric surgery might reduce severity of COVID-19 infection
“Patients after bariatric surgery become significantly healthier and can fight the virus better.”
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‘Disordered eating’ drops after teens undergo bariatric surgery
The findings are “novel because of the age of the patients,” according to one of the investigators.
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Bariatric surgery tied to lower aortic dissection risk
“It has an incredible impact on hyperlipidemia and hypertension...Those are the main risk factors for aortic dissection.”
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Screening algorithm safely selects patients for OSA treatment before bariatric surgery
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Bariatric surgery achieved long-term resolution of NASH without worsening fibrosis
In all, 84% of patients evaluated at 5 years met this primary endpoint.
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Obesity-related hypoventilation increased morbidity risk after bariatric surgery
Adverse outcomes after bariatric surgery were greater in this subset of obesity hypoventilation syndrome.
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How high a priority is bariatric surgery during COVID-19?
“For those with early diabetes, the sooner the [bariatric] surgery the more likely it is [for diabetes] to go into remission.”
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Daily Recap: Hospitalized COVID patients need MRIs; Americans vote for face masks
Orthopedists were the top earners, according to a new Medscape report on physician debt and net worth.