Dennis Hong
@Drbariatricsx
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Bariatric/foregut surgeon, health services, wannabe taekwon master and guitar player, proud father
Hamilton, Ontario
Joined September 2013
New in @BJSurgery: One of the first population-based matched studies with renal-specific outcomes after bariatric surgery in patients with #CKD ⬇️ 52% lower mortality ⬇️ 53% fewer major adverse kidney events (death, 50%↓eGFR, dialysis, MI, AKI, HF) 🔗 https://t.co/rZph6wRxaZ
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The long term use of medications 💊 for obesity treatment is NOT promising according to this evidence: Study Shows 85% Of Patients Stop GLP-1s For Obesity After 2 Years
forbes.com
Evidence that many people may stop their use of obesity drugs not long after starting casts doubt on sustainability of weight loss to achieve long-term positive outcomes.
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Many thanks to Dr Jake Choi @McMasterSurgery for update to @ontario_gastros on general surgery abstracts including endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty and achalasia/POPE (very different from usual GI topic - poop!) #OAGpostDDW
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A study of individuals living with diabetes and obesity, conducted from 2008 through 2021, treatment with bariatric metabolic surgery was more effective than treatment with GLP-1 receptor agonists for prevention of incident congestive heart failure. https://t.co/RSqGTo1xhc
nature.com
Nature Medicine - In a retrospective study of individuals living with diabetes and obesity, conducted from 2008 through 2021, treatment with bariatric metabolic surgery was more effective than...
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Our work on frailty in IBD now available. @tylermckechnie @YungLeeMDMPH @ColorectalDis @McMasterSurgery Frailty in inflammatory bowel disease: analysis of the National Inpatient Sample 2015–2019 - Sharma - Colorectal Disease - Wiley Online Library
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Aim Preoperative frailty has been associated with adverse postoperative outcomes in various populations, but of its use in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) remains sparse. The present...
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Check out our new paper from @AHNSurgeryInst and @AHNtoday in @JournalofGISurg on comparison of POEM vs. Heller Myotomy with Dor Fundoplication for EGJOO: Full text open access 🔓: https://t.co/qygdsdGzlG
@SAGES_Updates @SSATNews @MISIRG1 @EndoscopyNow @ISDE_net @ANMSociety
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Compelling data favoring RYGB vs SLEEVE for diabetes.
The triple blind RCT — RYGB is superior to Sleeve (consistent with preclinical and observational data)!! Great insight! #wls
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Headline, practice-changing results of the By Band Sleeve RCT presented for the 1st time at #BOMSS2023. Huge excitement in the room. ⭐️ WL from Sleeve is inferior to RYGB, mirrored by quality of life and health economic metrics ⭐️ RYGB > SG > Band @bariatricBOMSS @BlazebyJ
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🎯RCT on🔭laparoscopic vs. 🤖robotic surgeries Statistically significant findings are fragile, further concrete RCT data are required! @YungLeeMD @Drbariatricsx @SurgEndosc
https://t.co/0I91xrJhQA
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Excited to share our new publication on combination therapy of TORe + anti-obesity medication (AOM) for weight regain (thank you @GIE_Journal)! TORe + AOM is superior to either therapy alone and yields similar weight loss as surgical revision of RYGB. https://t.co/Wv7ISSvJ2x
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Must read review for colleagues treating GI perforations, leaks, and fistulas. Full information regarding EVT including different EVT systems and tips and tricks. Hope you enjoy it!
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Long-term all-cause and cause-specific mortality for four bariatric surgery procedures https://t.co/Theao6svIc The hazard ratio for suicide was 2.4 times higher in surgery compared with non-surgery participants (95% CI: 1.57-3.68; p < 0.001), primarily between 18 and 34 years.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Reduced all-cause mortality was durable for multiple decades, for multiple bariatric surgical procedures, for females and males, and for greater than age 34 years at surgery. Rate of death from...
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A Hamilton researcher has won an international prize for work that jurors say makes him the “father of evidence-based medicine” #HamOnt
https://t.co/0GqDSFhbMM
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Very low energy diets before nonbariatric surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis - @tylermckechnie @CAGS_ACCG in @SurgJournal
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@anesthesianews @jeffgadsden Optimizing analgesia for bariatric patients is a challenge and TAP block provides a simple but effective solution @MacAnesthesia @DeepaKattail @McMasterSurgery @STJOESHAMILTON @HEI_mcmaster @Drbariatricsx
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The prospective PLASTIC study found that, for staging locally advanced gastric cancer, FDG-PET/CT has limited additive value as it detects metastatic disease in only 3%. Staging laparoscopy adds considerably as it detects non-curable disease in 19%
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I used to call the sleeve gastrectomy a “Turbo-band”. At 10 years, the SG lost its “turbo properties”. SG=adjustable gastric banding regarding weight loss and conversion rate.
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Congratulations to PGY5 K. Logie for this excellent paper! @macgensurg @machealthsci @MacGSxNRC @STJOESHAMILTON @YungLeeMD @Doctor_Doum
Regional Variation in Laparoscopy for #ColonCancer in Canada by proximity to fellowship training sites: https://t.co/IkYlResJfC
@audreykulaylat @JISBMD @ConorDelaneyMD @justinmaykel @KarimAlavi @KyleCologne @dubaicolorectal @SamAtallahMD @debby_keller @SeanLangenfeld
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