RESUMO Objetivo: verificar o grau de conhecimento entre cirurgiões, sobre as recomendações do Projeto ACERTO em cirurgia bariátrica, correlacionando o "imaginário", sobre suas prescrições, e a "realidade", através de dados de prontuários de seus pacientes. Métodos: estudo observacional longit...
Introdução: as doenças e agravos não transmissíveis vêm aumentando e, no Brasil, são as principais causas de óbitos em adultos, sendo a obesidade um dos fatores de maior risco para o adoecimento neste grupo. Objetivo: identificar as evidências disponíveis na literatura sobre o tratamento multip...
Abstract Introduction: Numerous studies have focused on psychological assessment of bariatric surgery candidates, aiming to identify which psychological variables, including personality characteristics, are related to successful surgical prognosis. Objective: To analyze, by means of a systematic litera...
ABSTRACT Objective: to compare the clinical conditions of obese patients in the pre and postoperative period of bariatric surgery. Methods: we carried out a descriptive, retrospective, quantitative study by consulting the charts of 134 patients who underwent bariatric surgery in the period from 2009 ...
ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze possible negative effects of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) on the success of bariatric surgery. Methods: we evaluated forty patients undergoing bariatric surgery and with regular post-operative follow-up of at least one year. To all, we applied the que...
INTRODUCCIÓN: La cirugía bariátrica constituye en la actualidad una alternativa terapéutica eficaz en pacientes con obesidad y comorbilidades. El objetivo fue describir los resultados obtenidos en una serie de pacientes tratados con cirugía bariátrica en el Hospital de Especialidades José Carrasco...
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment for severe obesity, but the surgery increases the risk of developing nutritional deficiencies, such as vitamin A deficiency. In human metabolism, vitamin A plays a role in vision. OBJECTIVE To evaluate serum vitamin A, visual functio...
Cirugía Bariátrica/efectos adversos,
Estudios Transversales,
Endotelio Corneal,
Microscopía Confocal,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Obesidad Mórbida/cirugía,
Resultado del Tratamiento,
Trastornos de la Visión/etiología,
Trastornos de la Visión/fisiopatología,
Agudeza Visual/fisiología,
Vitamina A/sangre
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND -In recent decades, the high prevalence of obesity in the general population has brought serious concerns in terms of public health. Contrarily to conventional treatment involving dieting and physical exercising, often ineffective in generating long term results, bariatric operati...
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Bariatric surgery has become the gold standard treatment for morbid obesity, but access to surgery remains difficult and low compliance to postoperative follow-up is common. To improve outcomes, enable access and optimize follow-up, we developed a multidisciplinary preoperative appro...
