ALLMedicine™ Antrectomy Center

Nov 1st, 2022 - A man in his late 60s with prior Hartman's procedure underwent colostomy takedown and complex ventral hernia repair. He subsequently developed gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding from a duodenal bulb ulcer. Despite five endoscopic procedures aimed at a...

Jul 8th, 2022 - Duodenogastroesophageal reflux (DGER) following esophagectomy or gastrectomy can cause severe esophagitis, which impairs patients' quality of life and increases the risk of esophageal carcinogenesis. It is sometimes resistant to medical treatment,...

Apr 1st, 2022 - Peptic ulcer disease (PUD), once primary a surgical problem, is now medically managed in the majority of patients. The surgical treatment of PUD is now strictly reserved for life-threatening complications. Free perforation, refractory bleeding and...

Feb 16th, 2022 - Gallbladder duplication is a congenital abnormality of the hepatobiliary system and often is not considered in the evaluation of a patient with right upper quadrant pain. Accuracy of the most commonly used imaging study to assess for biliary disea.

Dec 23rd, 2021 - Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (SG) has been proven safe and effective in achieving weight loss. However, the distance from the pylorus where resection should begin has been debated. To compare the clinical outcomes of laparoscopic SG with antrum...

May 26th, 2021 - From January 2018 to February 2020, a PD was performed with the CONDUCTJE-ST technique in 50 consecutive patients by the same surgical team, whose main surgeon has make more than 250 PD, in our Hepatobiliopancreatic Surgery and Liver Transplantati...

Mar 26th, 2020 - Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is currently the most frequent primary bariatric procedure performed worldwide. LSG is safe and effective in terms of excess weight loss. It is a powerful metabolic operation that activates significant hormona...

Jun 13th, 2019 - This was a randomized unblinded single-centre trial without masked evaluation of the main outcome.The authors decided to compare pancreatoduodenectomy with antrectomy versus pancreatoduodenectomy with pyloric preservation. The primary aim of this ...

Aug 20th, 2015 - This study compares if there is any difference doing antrectomy while performing a sleeve gastrectomy for treating morbid obesity. The investigators compare the differences between leaving or not leaving the antrum in terms of food tolerance, weig...

Feb 5th, 2009 - The eradication of H pylori is known to reduce the recurrence rate of peptic ulcer and gastric inflammation. But it is still not clear about the prevalence of HP infection in patients after surgical interventions when the micro-environment had bee...

Jul 13th, 2022 - My edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, the one with the azure blue cover, the source of lectures and exam questions during my third year clerkship in 1976, didn't have a chapter on AIDS. There was no AIDS. It did discuss pneumoe...

Feb 16th, 2022 - Gallbladder duplication is a congenital abnormality of the hepatobiliary system and often is not considered in the evaluation of a patient with right upper quadrant pain. Accuracy of the most commonly used imaging study to assess for biliary disea.

Dec 18th, 2018 - Most things have a beginning, a middle, and an end. In the clinic, every visit starts with a chief complaint, then has a set of assessments in the middle and a decision about what to do for each problem at its conclusion. Similarly, the physician'...

Dec 18th, 2018 - Most things have a beginning, a middle, and an end. In the clinic, every visit starts with a chief complaint, then has a set of assessments in the middle and a decision about what to do for each problem at its conclusion. Similarly, the physician'...

Apr 4th, 2016 - We've Come So Far, and Yet... Diabetes was transformed from a malignant disease to a chronic disorder just over 90 years ago when insulin became available. Antrectomy with vagotomy for ulcer—which I scrubbed in on as a surgical rotation student—ha...