RYGBP improves steatosis, necroinflammatory activity and hepatic fibrosis in patients with morbid obesity and NASH.

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Objective: To evaluate breathing pattern and thoracoabdominal motion during breathing exercises. Methods: Twenty-four patients with class II or III obesity (18 women; 6 men) were studied on the second postoperative day after gastroplasty. The mean age was 37 ± 11 years, and the mean BMI was 44 ± 3 kg/m 2 . Diaphragmatic breathing, incentive spirometry with a flow-oriented device and incentive spirometry with a volume-oriented device were performed in random order. Respiratory inductive plethysmography was used in order to measure respiratory variables and thoracoabdominal motion. Results: Comparisons among the three exercises showed significant differences: tidal volume was higher during incentive spirometry (with the flow-oriented device or with the volume-oriented device) than during diaphragmatic breathing; the respiratory rate was lower during incentive spirometry with the volume-oriented device than during incentive spirometry with the flow-oriented device; and minute ventilation was higher during incentive spirometry (with the flow-oriented device or with the volume-oriented device) than during diaphragmatic breathing. Rib cage motion did not vary during breathing exercises, although there was an increase in thoracoabdominal asynchrony, especially during incentive spirometry with the flow-oriented device. Conclusions: Among the breathing exercises evaluated, incentive spirometry with the volume-oriented device provided the best results, because it allowed slower, deeper inhalation.Keywords: Breathing exercises; Physical therapy (Specialty); Bariatric surgery; Obesity, morbid. ResumoObjetivo: Avaliar o padrão respiratório e o movimento toracoabdominal durante exercícios respiratórios. Métodos: Vinte e quatro pacientes com obesidade de nível II e III (18 mulheres; 6 homens) foram estudados no segundo dia pós-operatório após gastroplastia. A média de idade era de 37 ± 11 anos, e a média de IMC era de 44 ± 3 kg/m 2 . Exercício diafragmático, espirometria de incentivo orientada a fluxo e espirometria de incentivo orientada a volume foram realizados em ordem aleatória. A pletismografia respiratória indutiva foi utilizada para avaliar variáveis do padrão respiratório e do movimento toracoabdominal. Resultados: As comparações entre os exercícios demonstraram diferenças significativas: maior volume corrente durante a espirometria de incentivo orientada a fluxo ou orientada a volume (vs. exercício diafragmático), menor frequência respiratória durante a espirometria de incentivo orientada a volume (vs. espirometria de incentivo orientada a fluxo), e maior ventilação minuto durante a espirometria de incentivo orientada a fluxo ou orientada a volume (vs. exercício diafragmático). O movimento toracoabdominal não foi modificado durante os exercícios respiratórios e houve um aumento na assincronia toracoabdominal, especialmente durante a espirometria de incentivo orientada a fluxo. Conclusões: Entre os exercícios respiratórios avaliados, a espirometria de incentivo orientado a volume forneceu os melhores resultado...

The incidence of BDI after LC is similar to that reported for the open procedure. BDI increases mortality and morbidity and prolongs hospitalization; therefore, all efforts should be made to reduce its incidence.

Background: Ghrelin is a peptide mainly secreted by gastric mucosa and has been implicated in the regulation of eating behavior and weight balance. Obesity and Helicobacter pylori infection are associated with changes in plasma ghrelin levels. Objective: This study was designed to evaluate the density of ghrelin-producing cells in the gastric mucosa of morbidly obese and dyspeptic non-obese patients, with and without H. pylori infection. Methods: Gastric biopsies of the antral and oxyntic mucosa were obtained from 50 morbidly obese patients (BMI O40, 21 with metabolic syndrome (MS)), 17 dyspeptic overweight subjects (25!BMI!30), and 33 lean individuals (BMI!25) and processed for histology and immunohistochemistry. Results: Ghrelin-immunoreactive cell densities in the oxyntic mucosa were similar in morbidly obese patients with MS and in overweight and lean patients, whereas morbidly obese patients without MS presented higher ghrelin-immunoreactive cell density. The number of ghrelin cells in the oxyntic mucosa was significantly lower in obese and non-obese H. pylori-infected subjects. Ghrelin-immunoreactive cells, although sparse in the antral mucosa, were found more frequently in obese patients and their numbers did not seem to be affected by H. pylori infection. Conclusions: The higher expression of ghrelin-immunoreactive cells in the oxyntic mucosa of morbidly obese patients compared with non-obese subjects or with morbidly obese subjects with MS and the finding of a higher number of small foci of ghrelin cells in the antral mucosa of obese patients may indicate an adaptive mechanism or an individual factor to be considered in the pathogenesis of obesity.