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Surgical management of morbid obesity.
Obesity imposes devastating health and financial tolls on society and those who suffer from it. Despite the growing awareness of the problem, the obesity epidemic, along with its associated complications, continues to expand at an alarming rate (1). The current nomenclature used to measure an individuals degree of obesity is BMI, which is calculated by dividing weight (in kilograms) by the squa...
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of evidence • Patients undergoing various bariatric surgical procedures lost an average of 61.2% of their excess weight (varying from 47.5% for gastric banding to 70.1% for biliopancreatic diversion or duodenal switch procedures) • Perioperative mortality was relatively low (varying from 0.1% for banding, 0.5% for bypass, to 1.1% for biliopancreatic diversion or duodenal switch) • Most patients...
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Since severe obesity is frequently associated with serious metabolic, cardiovascular and psychological co-morbid conditions, and given the usually unsuccessful results of conservative therapeutic approaches, surgical treatment based on gastric restriction procedures is increasingly recognized as a treatment of choice for morbidly obese persons. Among several surgical approaches designed to prom...
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Achalasia is a relatively rare medical condition that is classically not associated with obesity. The surgical treatment of a simultaneous occurrence of these two diseases requires careful consideration, and only a few reports can be found in the literature combining a Heller myotomy with gastric bypass, duodenal switch, or gastric banding. We report the case of a 69-year-old female patient wit...
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e fi rst edition of Morbid Obesity: Peri-operative Manage ment, published in 2005, was heralded as an important and timely comprehensive review of perioperative care of morbidly obese surgical patients. Adrian Alvarez has built on the success of the fi rst book and, with the help of three new editors, has presented a concise and well-written text about the complexities of dealing with morbidly ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Diabetes Care
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0149-5992,1935-5548
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.28.2.475