Category: Current Issue
Robotic-assisted Laparoscopic Revision of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass for Recurrent Gastrogastric Fistula
by Carolyn G. Judge, MD; Kyle D. Gadbois, MD, FACS; and Gordon G. Wisbach, MD, MBA, FACS, FASMBS Lt. Judge is with Navy Medical Research Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. CDR. Gadbois is with Navy Readiness and Training Command in San Diego, California. Capt. Wisbach is Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland. […]
Wellness: It’s a Road Trip, not a Quick Trip to the Convenience Store
by Bea Rademacher, MA, LICSW, CST Ms. Rademacher is Psychotherapist and Owner, Thestral Therapy, LLC, in Minnesota. Funding: No funding was provided for this article. Disclosures: The author reports no conflicts of interest relevant to the content of this article. Correspondence: Bea Rademacher, MA, LICSW, CST; Email: [email protected] Bariatric Times. 2023;20(7–8). Published online July 21, […]
Stapler Reload Misfires During Sleeve Gastrectomy: Isolated Events or Cause for Concern?
by George Woodman, MD, FACS, FASMBS; Alexander Wells, BS; and Guy Voeller, MD Dr. Woodman is with Baptist Memorial Hospital–Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee, and Methodist Hospital Germantown in Germantown, Tennessee. Mr. Wells is a medical student at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. Voeller is with Baptist Health Sciences University […]
Perforated Ulcer in the Gastric Remnant after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Presenting as Acute Cholecystitis
by Khea Tan, MD; Jason Silvers, MD; and Seth Kipnis, MD All authors are with the Department of Surgery, Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, New Jersey. Funding: No funding was provided for this article. Disclosures: The authors have no conflicts of interest relevant to the contents of this article. Correspondence: Khea Tan, MD; […]
The Trifecta—It’s in the Name
Richard M. Peterson, MD, MPH, FACS, FASMBS, DABS-FPMBS, is the Co-clinical Editor of Bariatric Times; Professor of Surgery, UT Health San Antonio; Chief, Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas. Dear Colleagues, This year, I will be finishing my four-year term as a board member of the organization formally known as […]
Addressing Obesity in Men
Jennifer C. Seger, MD, FOMA, is the Co-clinical Editor of Bariatric Times; Diplomate, American Board of Obesity Medicine; Medical Director, Bariatric Medical Institute of Texas, San Antonio, Texas. Dear Readers, To all the wonderful Dads out there, Happy Father’s Day! June is National Men’s Health Month, which makes the topic of this editorial fitting. Men […]
An Interview with Shanu N. Kothari, MD, FACS, FASMBS
by Omar M. Ghanem, MD, FACS; Tammy Kindel, MD, PhD, FACS, FASMBS; Shaina R. Eckhouse, MD, FACS, FASMBS; and Benjamin Clapp, MD, FACS, FASMBS Dr. Ghanem is a bariatric surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Kindel is Associate Professor of Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dr. Eckhouse […]
A Survey on Scope of Practice Among Members of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
by Abdulaziz A. Arishi, MD; Jean F. Salem, MD; Pavel Burskii, MD; Jill Stoltzfus, PhD; Anthony T. Petrick, MD; Ranjan Sudan, MD; and Maher El Chaar, MD Drs. Arishi, Salem, Burskii, Stoltzfus, and El Chaar are with the Department of Surgery, St. Luke’s University Hospital and Health Network, Lewis Katz School of Medicine in Bethlehem, […]
Combined Therapies for Obesity: The Dawn of a New Era!
by Adrian G. Dan, MD, FACS, FASMBS Dr. Dan is Medical Director, Weight Management Institute at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, and Associate Professor of Surgery at Northeastern Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) in Rootstown, Ohio. Funding: No funding was provided. Disclosures: The authors have no conflicts of interest relevant to the content of this article. Bariatric Times. […]
Unintended Benefit of GLP-1 Treatment for Obesity: Resolution of Chronic Systemic Mastocytosis Symptoms
by George Woodman, MD, FACS, FASMBS; Alexander Wells, BS; Gregory A. Hanissian, MD; and Guy Voeller, MD Dr. Woodman is with Baptist Memorial Hospital–Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee, and Methodist Hospital Germantown in Germantown, Tennessee. Mr. Wells is a medical student at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. Hanissian is with […]
