Ralph Yap, MD

Weight Loss & Metabolic Surgery

[Fernando Ponce Leon @fernandowr10]

20 y old hematoma after an onlay ventral repair with in an anticoagulated pt

Sometimes the resilience of some patients is simply baffling. She thought it was normal to be like that...

[Ralph Yap, MD @rvyapMD]

@masa_ai_med What specs bro?

[Ralph Yap, MD @rvyapMD]

My first #APMBSS2026 in Taichung 🇹🇼. Presented 2 meta-analysis papers, attended a robotic bariatric workshop, and learned from Asia’s leading MBS surgeons. Inspired by the innovations in sleeve + intestinal bypass procedures for metabolic disease and obesity. #SoMe4Surgery

[Keith Siau @drkeithsiau]

Colonoscopy cocktail ideas from a licensed gastroenterologist! Bottoms up! 🍹😅🍻

[Scholarship for PhD @ScholarshipfPhd]

All rejected papers share one common flaw: a weak discussion section.

I know because I used to write them too.

If you're stuck on the discussion section,
wondering how to tie it all together,
this is for you:

[Oren Gottfried, MD @OGdukeneurosurg]

What is this bariatric surgery

[Ron Barbosa MD FACS @rbarbosa91]

🧵regarding the 'figure-of-eight' suture. I did a similar one 3 yr ago, but the students and interns are new.

We'll go over the surgical application of the 'figure-of-eight' stitch, some technical pointers, and compare it to a similar stitch (the' horizontal mattress').
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[Ralph Yap, MD @rvyapMD]

@MushtaqBilalPhD @zenahitz 👌👌👌

[Ralph Yap, MD @rvyapMD]

@karthikponna19 Shifted to Mac since 2022
Best decision ever 😎

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

This is really cool.

Chrome extension automatically renames every paper you download.

[Dr Luis Felipe Cabrera Vargas MD FACS @PipeCabreraV]

How to close the umbilical port protecting the bowel using the back of the dissection clamp ⤵️💥! @SWexner @pferrada1

[Ralph Yap, MD @rvyapMD]

@PipeCabreraV @SWexner @pferrada1 Same! 🤗🤗🤗

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Claude Code can automate screening titles/abstracts for your systematic literature review with just two prompts.

Here's a step-by-step tutorial on how to do it:

1. Start by creating a folder on your computer, "systematic review"

[Ralph Yap, MD @rvyapMD]

@MushtaqBilalPhD Same for Cochrane and Embase search file?

[George Ferzli @drferzli]

Autologous posterior gastric fundus pexy for large hiatal hernia repair: using the fundus as a biologic patch to obliterate a wide hiatus and avoid prosthetic mesh in a dynamic anatomic space.
#ForegutSurgery #HiatalHernia #LaparoscopicSurgery #RoboticSurgery #GeneralSurgery #SurgicalSafety #MedEd #SurgicalEducation #SurgEd #MISurgery #SoMe4Surgery

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Do NOT use Sci-Hub, the evil website that pirated 88M+ research papers.

It also integrates with Zotero.

We must make billion-dollar, for-profit, academic publishers richer.

Below is a step-by-step tutorial on how to add Sci-Hub to Zotero, so you know how to avoid it:

[Masashi Misawa MD PhD @masa_ai_med]

PubMedをAIに検索させるなら、私のPubMedMCPがおすすめ。Opus 4.8なら50本以上検索させてもハルシネーションはありません。やり方は↓

[Jose M. Balibrea MD, PhD, FACS @BalibreaJose]

One of the most complex bariatric revisional surgeries is the conversion from SADI-S to RYGBP due to Barrett’s esophagus.

During this procedure, special attention must be paid to gastric blood supply. In this case, we had preserved the right gastric artery.

The need to resect the portion of the stomach that is not converted into a reservoir necessitates its ligation.

#bariatricsurgery #SADIS #revisionalsurgery @ifso_ec

[Ralph Yap, MD @rvyapMD]

😂

[MANYAKISS @manya_kissu]

Imagine being sleep deprived from staying up overnight gathering water for the family and this is your reward in the morning 🙂🔫