Category: Departments

Management of Long-Term Complications of Gastric Banding and Gastric Balloon
by Christine Ren Fielding, MD, FACS, FASMBS Dr. Ren Fielding is Professor of Surgery, NYU School of Medicine; Chief, Division of Bariatric/Minimally Invasive Surgery; and Director, NYU Langone Weight Management Program in New York, New York. Funding: No funding was provided. Disclosures: The author has no conflicts of interest relevant to the content of this […]

Percutaneous Decompressive Jejunostomy for Treatment of Biliary Limb Obstruction After Duodenal Switch—Case Report
by David F. Greenbaum, MD, FACS, and Gaurav Sharma, MD Drs. Greenbaum and Sharma are with the Department of Bariatric Surgery, Virtua Memorial Hospital in Mount Holly, New Jersey. Funding: No funding was provided. Disclosures: The authors have no conflicts of interest relevant to the content of this article. Abstract: Duodenal stump blowout after duodenal […]

IFSO: A Closer Look at a Global Network of Bariatric Surgeons, Part 1
Lilian Kow, BMBS, PhD, FRACS Director Adelaide Bariatric Centre; President International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO) Prof. Luigi Angrisani, MD Senior Consultant, IRCCS Multimedica, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Sesto S.Giovanni – Milano Funding: No funding was provided. Disclosures: Lilian Kow, BMBS, PhD, FRACS, is the President […]

HIPAA Compliance: A Common Sense Approach
by Donna Vanderpool, MBA, JD Ms. Vanderpool is Vice President, Risk Management at PRMS, Inc. in Arlington, Virginia. Funding: No funding was provided for this article. Disclosures: The authors reports no conflicts of interest relevant to the content of this article. Reprinted with permission from Innov Clin Neurosci. 2019;16(1–2):38–41. © Copyright Matrix Medical Communications, 2019. […]