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JOB DETAILS Employment Opportunity For A General Surgeon In Our Indiana Big 10 University Town. The New General Surgeon Will Join A Highly Successful Multi-specialty Group. Call Is Limited Partnership

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Limited Enteral Intake of No Value in Acute Lung Injury (CME/CE)
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:30:00 -0400
HOUSTON (MedPage Today) -- Caloric restriction failed to improve outcomes in ventilator-dependent patients with acute lung injury, results of an NIH-sponsored, multicenter trial showed.
Stereotactic Surgery Plus tPA Shrinks Clots in Stroke (CME/CE)
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:19:06 -0400
NEW ORLEANS (MedPage Today) -- Reducing the size of an intracerebral hemorrhage through a minimally invasive surgical technique and thrombolytic therapy may help improve clinical outcomes, a phase II trial showed.
Vaccine Eyed for Early-Stage Prostate Ca
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:03:35 -0400
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- The immunotherapy agent sipuleucel-T (Provenge) appears safe for use earlier in prostate cancer, researchers found.
Bone Drug Slows Mets in Aggressive Prostate Ca
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:57:55 -0400
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- Denosumab (Xgeva) delays onset of bone metastases for even the highest risk prostate cancer patients, researchers found.
Study Finds Low Risk for LVAD Exchange (CME/CE)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:53:49 -0400
FT. LAUDERDALE (MedPage Today) -- Clinicians can be "aggressive" when deciding whether to replace a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) because the reoperation poses low risk, a small study showed.
Stents, Surgery Both Maintain Open Carotids (CME/CE)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:47:52 -0400
NEW ORLEANS (MedPage Today) -- For patients with carotid stenosis, both stenting and endarterectomy provided durable revascularization through two years, an analysis of the CREST trial showed.

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Impact of Payer Status on Treatment Options for Acute Cholecystitis: Comment on "Payer Status and Treatment Paradigm for Acute Cholecystitis" [Invited Critique]
Rosenthal, R. J. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:41:53 -0800

Can We Safely State That Laparoscopic Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Is a Better Weight Loss Procedure Than Adjustable Band Gastroplasty?: Comment on "Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass vs Gastric Banding for Morbid Obesity" [Invited Critique]
Himpens, J. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:41:43 -0800

Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass vs Gastric Banding for Morbid Obesity: A Case-Matched Study of 442 Patients [Original Article]
Romy, S., Donadini, A., Giusti, V., Suter, M. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:41:28 -0800
Hypothesis  Gastric banding (GB) and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGBP) are used in the treatment of morbidly obese patients. We hypothesized that RYGBP provides superior results. Design  Matched-pair study in patients with a body mass index (BMI) less than 50. Setting  University hospital and regional community hospital with a common bariatric surgeon. Patients  Four hundred forty-two patients were matched according to sex, age, and BMI. Interventions  Laparoscopic GB or RYGBP. Main Outcome Measures  Operative morbidity, weight loss, residual BMI, quality of life, food tolerance, lipid profile, and long-term morbidity. Results  Follow-up was 92.3% at the end of the study period (6 years postoperatively). Early morbidity was higher after RYGBP than after GB (17.2% vs 5.4%; P < .001), but major morbidity was similar. Weight loss was quicker, maximal weight loss was greater, and weight loss remained significantly better after RYGBP until the sixth postoperative year. At 6 years, there were more failures (BMI > 35 or reversal of the procedure/conversion) after GB (48.3% vs 12.3%; P < .001). There were more long-term complications (41.6% vs 19%; P < .001) and more reoperations (26.7% vs 12.7%; P < .001) after GB. Comorbidities improved more after RYGBP. Conclusions  Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is associated with better weight loss, resulting in a better correction of some comorbidities than GB, at the price of a higher early complication rate. This difference, however, is largely compensated by the much higher long-term complication and reoperation rates seen after GB.

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