Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding in adolescents with severe obesity: Psychological aspects, decision makers of surgery, and 2-year outcomes. A case series

BACKGROUND

The results of medical treatment of severe obesity in the adolescent population (balanced diet and physical activity) are often unsatisfactory, and bariatric surgery is questioned. The psychological determinants for requesting bariatric surgery in these adolescents are unclear. The objective of this study was to report the psychiatric and psychological aspects as well as the determinants of the medical decision for surgery in a cohort of obese adolescents requesting bariatric surgery by laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding.

METHODS

Thirty-five adolescents (12.3-17.7 years of age), were recruited from January 2007 to December 2012. Semistructured interviews were conducted.

RESULTS

Fifty-four percent of the adolescents had a psychiatric history and 85% had psychiatric comorbidities. In adolescents undergoing surgery, excess weight loss was 46% after 1 year and 51% after 2years. For patients not receiving surgery, excess weight loss was 0.43% after 1 year (P=0.001). Compliance with medical treatment was the only significant element contributing to the decision to perform surgery. Results in terms of satisfaction and perception 1 and 2years after surgery were encouraging.

CONCLUSION

Bariatric surgery is feasible in young patients and produces good results in terms of excess weight loss. We argue that compliance with medical treatment is probably one of the most important elements for making the decision to perform bariatric surgery and in excess weight loss after surgery. We probably need to focus on the compliance of young patients and evaluate how this can be improved.

Inclusive K(S);(0)K(S);(0) resonance production in ep collisions at HERA

Inclusive K_{S};{0}K_{S};{0} production in ep collisions at the DESY ep collider HERA was studied with the ZEUS detector using an integrated luminosity of 0.5 fb;{-1}. Enhancements in the mass spectrum were observed and are attributed to the production of f_{2}(1270)/a_{2};{0}(1320), f_{2};{'}(1525) and f_{0}(1710). Masses and widths were obtained using a fit which takes into account theoretical predictions based on SU(3) symmetry arguments, and are consistent with the Particle Data Group values. The f_{0}(1710) state, which has a mass consistent with a glueball candidate, was observed with a statistical significance of 5 standard deviations. However, if this state is the same as that seen in gammagamma-->K_{S};{0}K_{S};{0}, it is unlikely to be a pure glueball state.

Évitement alimentaire et trouble affectif chez l'enfant

We underline the clinical importance of a specific eating disorder in 3 to 10 years old children, when the majority of the works about the prepubertal eating disorders focus either on the period just preceding adolescence (often between 10 and 13 years), or on the second half of the first year of the baby. Within the eating disorders described in the literature, we compare the clinical presentation of most of these 3 to 10 years old children with the food avoidance emotional disorder described during adolescence. These problems of eating behaviour (various selective eating with or without provoked vomiting) are ignored for a long time in these young children because of quite a satisfactory growth, but these children are often seen in emergency rooms because of a brutally complete eating refusal. Therapeutic consultations allow these children to express their fears about diseases, poisoning and death, for themselves or for their close relations, in particular the mother, without endangering their body. The early recognition and care of these difficulties of conciliation between the body and the thoughts impose a narrow collaboration between paediatric and psychiatric staffs.

[Neonatal death of a newborn twin]

In France, in 2001, 33,000 children were born from multiple pregnancies (4.2% of births). Lately, with the stimulated fertilization improvement, this number has strongly increased. These pregnancies are pretty often difficult and the hospitalizations of the twins (or other multiples) in a neonatal intensive care unit are more frequent than in a single pregnancy (48 vs. 5.3%). Newborn twin death leads the parents to face a tough mourning because of the surviving twin presence. The psychiatrist's function is crucial with the parents, the deceased child, the surviving child and the pediatric staff. Therefore, as much as possible, the psychiatrist (or the psychologist) has to gather and work through the confused feelings of the parents. Several splittings occur in this situation. Some of these splittings concern the medical staff, some others affect the children, the dead one and the living one, either rejected and disinvested or idealized and overprotected. The child psychiatrist is a preferred recipient for the different projections of the parents.The hospital staff as a whole has to understand their full significance and their important psychic sparing for the couple. As the deceased child, the psychiatrist may look bad and unsatisfying, for instance: "he doesn't answer as we would like", "he doesn't come up to the couple's expectations", "he doesn't talk enough", "he's leaving too soon", etc.In addition, the psychiatrist may be attacked as the representative of the pediatric staff, in order to preserve in a better way the others medical protagonists, still essential for the survival of the alive child. These parents are in mourning and the psychiatrist must help them in this process in order to improve the specific investment of the surviving child, the attachment and the communication with him.

[Post-therapeutic development of small cell epitheliomas to malpighian epitheliomas, or initially composite forms? Apropos of 3 cases, review of the literature]

Three cases of transformation of small cell carcinomas into squamous cell cancer after chemotherapy are reported. A review of the literature shows that about 7% of small cell carcinomas are associated to different histological types of cancer before treatment. Such an association is found in about 25% of the cases after chemotherapy. Recent biochemical and ultrastructural approaches have led to new concepts concerning the histogenesis of lung cancer. The unicyst theory suggested by some authors could explain the therapy-induced maturation of undifferentiated small cell carcinoma.

Partial trisomy for the long arms of chromosome no. 5 due to insertion and further 'aneusomie de recombinaison'

Five members of a family with a balanced insertion (1;5)(q32;q11q22) are presented. The daughter of one of them shows multiple malformations and a partial trisomy for the long arms of chromosome No. 5 (5q11 to 5q22 segment) resulting from a 'aneusomie de recombinaison' in her mother. The propositus' karyotype is 46,XX,rec(1;5)ins (1;5)(q32;q11q22). This case is the first reported example of an insertion between two chromosomes followed by 'aneusomie de recombinaison'. It also is the first reported case of trisomy invovling the long arms of chromosome No. 5.