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| Ramsey M DallalSummaryAffiliation: Albert Einstein Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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"Candy cane" Roux syndrome--a possible complication after gastric bypass surgeryRamsey M Dallal
Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141, USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 3:408-10. 2007..The purpose of this study was to characterize the syndrome and provide the practitioner with diagnosis and management options...- Analysis of leukopenia and anemia after gastric bypass surgeryRamsey M Dallal
Department of Surgery, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 8:164-8. 2012..Although anemia is a well-described complication after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) in association with iron deficiency, no studies have been published regarding changes in the white blood cell count... - Analysis of perioperative outcomes, length of hospital stay, and readmission rate after gastric bypassRamsey M Dallal
Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA
Surg Endosc 26:754-8. 2012..Hospital lengths of stay (LOS) and readmission rates often are used by third parties to measure quality of outcomes despite only a few published series that analyze risk-adjusted data and predictors of these events... - Analysis of weight loss after bariatric surgery using mixed-effects linear modelingRamsey M Dallal
Department of Surgery, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA
Obes Surg 19:732-7. 2009..The aim of the study was to develop a valid approach to the longitudinal analysis of weight loss outcomes after bariatric surgery using multivariable mixed models. This study has a multi-institutional setting... - Outcomes with the adjustable gastric bandRamsey M Dallal
Division of Bariatric Surgery, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Surgery 143:329-33. 2008..The laparoscopic adjustable gastric band (LAGB) has been offered as a safe, effective, and reversible alternative to more invasive weight loss procedures... - Repair of acute gastroesophageal leak after laparoscopic gastric bypass using a covered stentRamsey M Dallal
Department of Surgery, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141, USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 3:652-3. 2007 - Medicare and Medicaid status predicts prolonged length of stay after bariatric surgeryRamsey M Dallal
Department of Surgery, Division of Bariatric Surgery, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19027, USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 3:592-6. 2007..The outcomes of Medicare patients undergoing bariatric surgery have been particularly scrutinized, especially with the Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services' decision to offer bariatric surgery benefits... - Comparative analysis of short-term outcomes after bariatric surgery between two disparate populationsRamsey M Dallal
Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19027, USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 4:110-4. 2008..Risk adjustment is a critically important aspect of outcomes research. Racial, geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic differences are nonclinical parameters that can affect clinical outcomes measurement after gastric bypass surgery... - Back to basics--clinical diagnosis in bariatric surgery. Routine drains and upper GI series are unnecessaryRamsey M Dallal
Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Surg Endosc 21:2268-71. 2007..The routine use of closed suction drains and upper GI (UGI) series has been used to aid in the diagnosis and management of gastrojejunal leak after gastric bypass as well as diagnose intra-abdominal bleeding... - Hemobilia: a rare complication after routine liver biopsy during gastric bypassRamsey M Dallal
Division of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 3:91-3. 2007 - Ulcer disease after gastric bypass surgeryRamsey M Dallal
Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 2:455-9. 2006..We reviewed the incidence, presentation, and outcome of ulcer disease in consecutive patients undergoing laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery... - Omental infarction: a cause of acute abdominal pain after antecolic gastric bypassRamsey M Dallal
Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 2:451-4. 2006..However, specific complications of this approach have not been documented. We describe the clinical presentation related to complications of this technique... - Minimally invasive management of complications from jejunoileal bypassRamsey M Dallal
Department of Surgery, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 2:226-7. 2006 - Management of ventral hernias during laparoscopic gastric bypassTejwant Datta
Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141, USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 4:754-7. 2008..We sought to define a rational approach to ventral hernia management in the gastric bypass patient in a university hospital setting... - Results of laparoscopic gastric bypass in patients with cirrhosisRamsey M Dallal
The University of Pittsburgh, Department of Surgery, Pittsburgh, PA 15231, USA
Obes Surg 14:47-53. 2004..Patients tend to be heavier, older, male and more likely to have diabetes and hypertension. Long-term studies are necessary to examine how weight loss impacts established cirrhosis... - Sexual dysfunction is common in the morbidly obese male and improves after gastric bypass surgeryRamsey M Dallal
Department of Surgery, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA 19027, USA
J Am Coll Surg 207:859-64. 2008..Our objectives were to measure sexual function in the morbidly obese man before and after substantial weight loss induced by gastric bypass surgery... - Fulminant Clostridium difficile: an underappreciated and increasing cause of death and complicationsRamsey M Dallal
Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Ann Surg 235:363-72. 2002..To review the epidemiology and characteristics of patients who died or underwent colectomy secondary to fulminant Clostridium difficile colitis... - Gouty attacks occur frequently in postoperative gastric bypass patientsJeffrey E Friedman
Sacred Heart Institute for Surgical Weight Loss, Pensacola, Florida 32503, USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 4:11-3. 2008..Both obesity and surgery are known risk factors for instigating gouty attacks. We describe the incidence and management of postoperative gouty attacks after bariatric surgery... - The orientation of the antecolic Roux limb markedly affects the incidence of internal hernias after laparoscopic gastric bypassBrian B Quebbemann
The Nutrition, Exercise and Weight Loss Program, Orange County, CA, USA
Obes Surg 15:766-70; discussion 770. 2005..005). CONCLUSIONS: With a simple change in technique, the incidence of internal herniation behind the Roux limb mesentery may be significantly reduced or eliminated... - Wernicke encephalopathy after bariatric surgery: losing more than just weightRamsey M Dallal
Neurology 66:1786. 2006