1. Bariatric Medicine without Surgery is like Nephrology without Dialysis

   • Arya M Sharma

   EditorialNotes 01 October 2004 Pages: 1145 - 1147

2. Report on 9th World Congress of IFSO, Sept. 8-11, 2004

   • M Deitel

   EditorialNotes 01 October 2004 Pages: 1147 - 1147

3. Psychiatric Diagnoses and Psychiatric Treatment Among Bariatric Surgery Candidates

   • David B Sarwer
   • Naomi I Cohn
   • Thomas A Wadden

   OriginalPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1148 - 1156

4. Bariatric Surgery Worldwide 2003

   • Henry Buchwald
   • Stanley E Williams

   OriginalPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1157 - 1164

5. Preoperative Low Energy Diet Diminishes Liver Size

   • Robert J Fris

   OriginalPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1165 - 1170

6. Laryngoscopy and Morbid Obesity: a Comparison of the "Sniff" and "Ramped" Positions

   • Jeremy S Collins
   • Harry J M Lemmens
   • Richard M Levitan

   OriginalPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1171 - 1175

7. Course of Metabolic Syndrome following the Biliopancreatic Diversion of Larrad

   • Álvaro Larrad Jiménez
   • Carlos Sánchez Cabezudo
   • R García Robles

   OriginalPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1176 - 1181

8. Impact of Age on Long-Term Complications after Biliopancreatic Diversion

   • Maria Laura Cossu
   • Enrico Fais
   • Giuseppe Noya

   OriginalPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1182 - 1186

9. Duodenal Switch is a Safe Operation for Patients who have Failed Other Bariatric Operations

   • Ara Keshishian
   • Karin Zahriya
   • Chris Ayagian

   OriginalPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1187 - 1192

10. Factors Determining Conversion from Laparoscopic to Open Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

    • Michael L Schwartz
    • Raymond L Drew
    • Marilyn Chazin-Caldie

    OriginalPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1193 - 1197

11. The Use of Bovine Pericardial Strips on Linear Stapler to Reduce Extraluminal Bleeding during Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass: Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial

    • Luigi Angrisani
    • Michele Lorenzo
    • Paolo Scarano

    OriginalPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1198 - 1202

12. Routine Abdominal Drains After Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: A Retrospective Review of 593 Patients

    • Elias Chousleb
    • Samuel Szomstein
    • Raul Rosenthal

    OriginalPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1203 - 1207

13. Fasting Plasma Ghrelin Concentrations 6 Months after Gastric Bypass are not Determined by Weight Loss or Changes in Insulinemia

    • Gema Frühbeck
    • Fernando Rotellar
    • Javier A Cienfuegos

    OriginalPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1208 - 1215

14. Management of Incidental Ovarian Tumors in Patients Undergoing Gastric Bypass

    • Rodrigo Gonzalez
    • Krista Haines
    • Michel M Murr

    OriginalPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1216 - 1221

15. Elevated Serum Parathormone after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

    • Maria de Fátima Haueisen Sander Diniz
    • Marco Túlio Costa Diniz
    • Alexandre Lages Savassi Rocha

    OriginalPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1222 - 1226

16. Morbid Obesity and Gastric Bypass Surgery: Biochemical Profile

    • V Silvestre
    • M Ruano
    • G García-Blanch

    OriginalPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1227 - 1232

17. Results of Silastic Ring Vertical Gastroplasty More Than 6 Years after Surgery: Analysis of a Cohort of 214 Patients

    • J Closset
    • A Mehdi
    • J J Houben

    OriginalPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1233 - 1236

18. Is Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding a Day Surgery Procedure?

    • Karin Kormanova
    • Martin Fried
    • Marie Kunesova

    OriginalPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1237 - 1240

19. Impact of Preoperative Teaching on Surgical Option of Patients Qualifying for Bariatric Surgery

    • V Giusti
    • A De Lucia
    • M Suter

    OriginalPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1241 - 1246

20. Current Attitudes to the Laparoscopic Bariatric Operations among European Surgeons

    • Homero Rivas
    • José-Luis Martínez
    • Antonio M Lacy

    OriginalPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1247 - 1251

21. Surgical Management of Obese Patients with Eating Disorders: A Survey of Current Practice

    • Michael J Devlin
    • Juli A Goldfein
    • Rachel Eisenstadt

    OriginalPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1252 - 1257

22. Increase in Obesity and Health-Care Use, from the Health Survey for England, Ages 50 to 69, 1998

    • Folasade A Popoola

    OriginalPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1258 - 1262

23. The Evolution of Experimental Surgery in the Field of Morbid Obesity

    • Daniel Del Castillo Déjardin
    • Fàtima Sabench Pereferrer
    • Magda Abelló Sala

    ReviewPaper 01 October 2004 Pages: 1263 - 1272

24. Minimally Invasive Gastric Bypass in a Morbidly Obese Patient with Myasthenia Gravis

    • Roman Schumann
    • Michael Tarnoff
    • Zafar I Siddiqui

    Report 01 October 2004 Pages: 1273 - 1276

25. Gastric Outlet Obstruction Caused by Total Band Erosion

    • Ilya Pinsk
    • Oleg Dukhno
    • Amnon Ovnat

    Report 01 October 2004 Pages: 1277 - 1279

26. Small Bowel Obstruction by the Silicone Tube of the Gastric Band

    • Christo Dimitrov Shipkov
    • Angel Petrov Uchikov
    • Ekaterina Hristova Uchikova

    Report 01 October 2004 Pages: 1280 - 1282

27. Ghrelin and Gastric Bypass

    • Fabio V Teixeira

    Letter 01 October 2004 Pages: 1283 - 1284

28. Reply

    • Gema Frühbeck
    • Alberto Diez-Caballero
    • Javier A Cienfuegos

    Letter 01 October 2004 Pages: 1284 - 1285