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Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2018

11 Obesity and Weight Regulation

Bariatric surgery – new findings

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11.19 Factors associated with long-term weight-loss maintenance following bariatric surgery in adolescents with severe obesity

JR Ryder , AC Gross , CK Fox , AM Kaizer , KD Rudser , TM Jenkins , MB Ratcliff , AS Kelly , S Kirk , RM Siegel , TH Inge

To read the full abstract: Int J Obes (Lond). 2018 Jan;42(1):102-107This cohort of n=50 adolescents who underwent bariatric surgery is highly important, since such long-term follow-up data are rare. Until today, only this study cohort described here by Ryder et al. and the Swedish nationwide study (AMOS) of adolescents with severe obesity who underwent laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (3) hav...

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11.20 Intragastric balloon as an adjunct to lifestyle programme in severely obese adolescents: impact on biomedical outcomes and skeletal health

P Sachdev , L Reece , M Thomson , A Natarajan , RJ Copeland , JK Wales , NP Wright

To read the full abstract: Int J Obes 2018; 42: 115-118Intragastric balloons have now been used for more than 30 years in the treatment of extreme obesity. There are more than 30 studies published with almost 5,000 patients on the efficacy and safety of gastric balloons. However, due to several, sometimes severe side effects and the lack of convincing long-term outcomes, this treatment approach ha...