Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Postoperative upper digestive endoscopy seems to give conflicting results in literature after obesity surgery. Some stressed on the frequency of major digestive lesions such as esophagitis, cancer or endo brachy esophagus (EBO) especially after Sleeve Gastrectomy (SG). The incidence of EBO after SG was found in 1.2% to 15% at ten years of follow up. Accordingly to European Guidelines, it is mandatory to perform a routinely preoperative gastroscopy but not after s...

Many studies but not all showed an increase in employment after bariatric surgery by 17–29%. We analyzed the relation of this increase of employment rate with weight loss, satisfaction and deprivation score. In an observational study, we evaluated the rate of employment (mean±S.E.) 2.3 years ±0.1 after bariatric surgery. We mailed to 791 patients a simple self-questionnaire to assess the employment status deprivation, satisfaction scale and Barros...

Since its first description in 2000, Longitudinal Gastrectomy (LG) has become the first surgical procedure in the treatment of morbid obesity in the world, exceeding in numbers Gastric Bypass (GB). GB is considered to have better results regarding long-term weight loss and improvement in co-morbidities. We aimed to demonstrate that LG is non inferior to GB for a composite end point that included more than 50% excess weight loss from the baseline and surgery related complicatio...