Omar Ghanem

BACKGROUND: Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), with or without hiatal hernia (HH), affects millions of individuals worldwide, with a significant economic impact and loss of health-related quality of life…

Gastric fistula formation is a known complication of bariatric surgery. Many gastric fistulae can be managed endoscopically, however, it can be difficult to successfully treat chronic fistulae…

BACKGROUND: Idiopathic gastroparesis (IG) is an increasingly prevalent subtype of gastroparesis and causes significant morbidity and decreased quality of life…

BACKGROUND: Obesity is considered a major risk factor for developing multiple complications and medical conditions including type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Multiple scores (i.e., Individualized Metabolic Surgery [IMS], DiaRem, advanced DiaRem, and Robert et Al…

Obesity and type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are two inter-related chronic diseases with significant medical and financial burden. T2DM results in detrimental vascular complications including microvascular and macrovascular diseases…