Bariatric Surgery Resource Center News

• Orthostatic Headache? Consider Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension For many patients with debilitating headaches caused by spontaneous intracranial hypotension, the condition goes undiagnosed and untreated because of a lack of awareness about it.
  Medscape Medical News, January 11, 2021
• Bariatric Surgery Might Reduce Severity of COVID-19 Infection Undergoing bariatric surgery appeared to protect individuals with obesity against hospital admission and poor COVID outcomes, finds one small study.
  Medscape Medical News, December 22, 2020
• Durable Diabetes Remission Likelier With Earlier Surgery In patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes, bariatric surgery is more likely to produce lasting remission among individuals with shorter diabetes duration, new results confirm.
  Medscape Medical News, December 16, 2020
• RSNA 2020 Teenage Bone Density Declines Following Sleeve Gastrectomy These patients may never reach peak bone mass.
  Medscape Medical News, December 03, 2020
• Simultaneous Surgeries Open Door to Kidney Transplants in Obesity Simultaneous sleeve gastrectomy/kidney transplantation, both done robotically, reduced surgical complications in patients with morbid obesity and end-stage renal failure who might otherwise not quality for a transplant
  Medscape Medical News, November 19, 2020
• Obesity Week 2020 In Those With Obesity, Will Losing Weight Cut COVID-19 Severity? Patients with obesity are at high risk and should be treated similarly to the elderly or immunocompromised if they get COVID-19. But if they can lose weight, could they reduce their risk?
  Medscape Medical News, November 16, 2020
• Obesity Week 2020 Sleep Apnea Questionnaires Before Bariatric Surgery: A Coin Toss? 'Our study supports the use of STOP-BANG and NO-OSAS [questionnaires] where routine administration of sleep studies is not feasible,' says lead author. Another expert questions their usefulness.
  Medscape Medical News, November 10, 2020
• Obesity Week 2020 'Disordered Eating' Drops After Teens Undergo Bariatric Surgery Adolescents with severe obesity 'are in better control' of continuous eating, overeating, and binge eating after surgery, but all young adults with persistent severe obesity are at high risk for poor well-being.
  Medscape Medical News, November 06, 2020
• Metabolic Surgery Post-MI Trims CV Events Long Term A large registry study in Sweden suggests it may be time to broaden the name to 'cardiometabolic' surgery and stresses the need for more research.
  Medscape Medical News, November 05, 2020
• Bariatric Surgery Tied to Lower Aortic Dissection Risk Bariatric surgery was associated with a reduced risk for aortic dissection in a large retrospective study.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2020
• ANA 2020 Weight Loss in Obesity May Stall Neuropathy Progress However, not all neuropathy measures showed improvement despite significant weight loss; exercise may play the key role.
  Medscape Medical News, October 09, 2020
• EASD 2020 Diabetes Remission After Bariatric Surgery Best in Those Not on Insulin Patients with type 2 diabetes who had never used insulin showed sustained remission 10 years after bariatric surgery in a small prospective study.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2020
• ECOICO 2020 Small Weight Loss Produces Impressive Drop in Type 2 Diabetes Risk 'Treat obesity first,' say authors of a study showing a loss of just 13% of body weight is associated with a significantly reduced risk of type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea, hypertension, and dyslipidemia.
  Medscape Medical News, September 10, 2020
• ECOICO 2020 Testosterone: An Option for Weight Loss in Obesity With Hypogonadism Testosterone therapy in men with both morbid obesity and low testosterone is effective at sustaining weight loss over 11 years and might be an alternative to bariatric surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, September 08, 2020
• ECOICO 2020 Nine Years Before People Receive Medical Help for Their Obesity in the UK People with obesity wait an average of 9 years before they receive help from a healthcare practitioner in the UK, shows a large international survey.
  Medscape News UK, September 07, 2020
• The Long Road to a PsA Prevention Trial About one third of all patients with psoriasis will develop psoriatic arthritis in their lifetime. With no definitive blood test for diagnosis, prevention trials are key to identifying high-risk groups.
  Medscape Medical News, September 04, 2020
• Treat Obesity Like Breast Cancer, With Empathy, Say Canadians The guideline stresses that clinicians should "move beyond simplistic approaches of 'eat less, move more' and address the root drivers of obesity."
  Medscape Medical News, August 21, 2020
• Weight Loss Benefit in Diabetes Is Similar via Surgery or Diet Small study suggests no independent effects from gastric bypass surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, August 19, 2020
• COVID Isolation, Anxiety 'Really Reinforce' Eating Disorders Stockpiling of food at home because of lockdowns can be a temptation to overeating for the average individual. But some people with eating disorders may avoid keeping the necessary food stocks on hand.
  Georgia Health News, August 13, 2020
• Robotic Telerounding Reduces Postoperative Stay in Uncomplicated Bypass In this retrospective review, the hospital readmission rate was also lower in patients in the robotic telerounding group compared with those in the standard rounding group.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2020