SAGES 2009 Annual Meeting
Surgical Spring Week Presentations

April 22-24, 2009
Phoenix Convention Center
Phoenix, Arizona

∇ SS02: Bariatric I:

Moderators: Ninh Nguyen, M.D. & Mohammed Ali, M.D.

S006 A PROSPECTIVE, RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND, PLACEBO CONTROLLED TRIAL OF DEXAMETHASONE IN PREVENTING POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA IN THE LAPAROSCOPIC GASTRIC BYPASS PATIENT. Nia Zalamea, MD, Farida Bounoua, MD, Sarah Lee, MD, Todd Peterson, MD, David Thoman, MD, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. Santa Barbara, CA

V005 INCISIONLESS WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY. A NOVEL GASTRIC RESTRICTIVE PROCEDRE USING THE TRANSORAL GASTROPLASTY TECHNIQUE. Gregg K Nishi, MD, Simon Lo, MD, Edward H Phillips, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

S007 LAPAROSCOPIC DUODENO-JEJUNAL BYPASS (LDJB) AS A SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS IN THE NON OBESE PATIENTS. EARLY EXPERIENCE. Marcos Berry, MD, Patricio Lamoza, MD, Lionel Urrutia, MD, Hector Conoman, MD, Rodolfo Lahsen, MD, Center for Nutrition and Obesity Surgery, Clinica Las Condes, Santiago, Chile

S008 THE INCIDENCE AND MANAGEMENT OF POST-OPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC GASTRIC BYPASS Michael K Fishman, MD, Tejwant S Datta, MD, Alfred Trang, MD, George Eid, MD, Ramsey Dallal, MD, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Phildelphia, PA, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

V006 LAPAROSCOPIC TREATMENT FOR BOWEL OBSTRUCTION AFTER GASTRIC BY-PASS. Michel Vix, MD, Monica Gualtierotti, MD, Cynthia Solano, MD, Cosimo Callari, MD, Didier Mutter, PhD, Jacques Marescaux, MD, IRCAD-EITS, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

S009 SINGLE SITE SERIES UTILIZING THE ENDOSURGICAL OPERATING SYSTEM (EOS) FOR REVISION OF POST ROUXEN- Y GASTRIC BYPASS STOMAL AND POUCH DILITATION. Frank J Borao, MD, Steven A Gorcey, MD, Michael Chaump, MD, Monmouth Medical Center

S010 MANAGEMENT OF POST GASTRIC BYPASS NONINSULINOMA PANCREATOGENOUS HYPOGLYCEMIA (NESIDIOBLASTOSIS). Viney Mathavan, MD, Maurice Arregui, MD, Chad Davis, MD, Kirpal Singh, MD, Veronica Martin, MD, James Meachem, MD, St Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, IN

S011 HIGH VISCERAL ADIPOSE VOLUME IMPAIRS BETA-CELL FUNCTION AND MAY INFLUENCE SURGICAL OPTIONS. Edward Lin, DO, Adeola Ayeni, MD, Zhe Liang, MS, William Torres, MD, John F Sweeney, MD, Thomas R Ziegler, MD, Lawrence Phillips, MD, Nana Gletsu-Miller, PhD, Emory Bariatrics and Endocrinology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

S012 INCIDENCE AND IMPLICATIONS OF ABNORMAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TESTING FOLLOWING GASTRIC BYPASS. R Andrews, MD, J H Oren, BSE, J Yatco, MD, P C Shah, MD, M S Roslin, MD, Lenox Hill Hospital, Department of Surgery, New York, NY