In The News
María Antonieta Collins, RN encontró en la cirugía bariátrica
solución para la obesidad
By Carlos A. Martin
As Seen In: ESPECIAL/EL NUEVO HERALD 8/9/14
Hace unos 15 años, la periodista María Antonieta Collins, RN sorprendió a todos con un cambio de lookque fue ampliamente reseñado en los medios de prensa hispanos. “Era la dieta número 31 de mi vida y en aquel momento tuve una motivación eminentemente estética. Recuerdo que fue tan notorio el cambio que Jorge Ramos me dijo ‘tienes que escribir un libro acerca de lo que has hecho’, y fue él quien me acompañó a una editorial con ese propósito”, recuerda la hoy reportera de Univisión.
El libro Dietas y recetas de María Antonieta fue unbestseller y tuvo 10 ediciones, convirtiendo a Collins en una escritora de éxito. “A la gente le gusta que les cuentes tus experiencias; se identifican y se dan cuenta de que, no porque trabajes en televisión, eres distinta. Por supuesto, también tenemos la ventaja sobre otros autores de que la gente nos conoce físicamente, y eso garantiza el éxito”.
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History of Lap Colectomy: An Approach Still Awaiting Widespread Use
By Victoria Stern
In October 1990, an elderly woman came to see Dennis Fowler, MD. She had several critical issues, including severe lung disease and a tumor resting in the middle of her sigmoid colon.
Dr. Fowler, an assistant clinical professor of surgery at the University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Medicine at the time, sat with his patient and her son, discussing treatment options. Dr. Fowler was reluctant to perform surgery because of the woman’s obstructive lung disease. The patient, however, kept insisting that she would rather die from an operation than leave the cancer inside her.
Dr. Fowler told her about a new technique that he and several colleagues had been investigating over the summer. It involved taking out a section of the colon laparoscopically. He had trialed the technique in the pig lab, but the procedure had never, to his knowledge, been attempted in a human patient. “After numerous discussions, the patient said she wanted this new procedure,” Dr. Fowler said.
On Oct. 19, after receiving three prototypes of a laparoscopic intestinal stapler from US Surgical, Dr. Fowler performed the first laparoscopic sigmoid colectomy. He used one stapler to ligate the mesentery and two to transect the colon intraperitoneally. He then created a small muscle-splitting incision in the left lower quadrant of the abdomen to remove the specimen and completed the anastomosis intracorporeally with a circular stapler..
To read more… click here and visit the General Surgery News page.
The Gastric Sleeve Center on Miami’s Channel 10 News
The Gastric Sleeve Center was recently featured on Miami’s Channel 10 News where Dr. Moises Jacobs discusses the cutting edge of bariatric surgery – a new procedure called the greater curvature plication.
For More Information: Greater Curvature Plication
