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The Benefit of Sleeve Gastrectomy in Obese Adolescents on Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis and Hepatic Fibrosis [PDF]

, 2017
Objective To determine whether bariatric surgery is effective for the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) in adolescence, we compared the efficacy of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) with that of lifestyle intervention (nonsurgical ...
Alisi, Anna, Baumann, Ulrich, Caccamo, Romina, Cutrera, Renato, De Peppo, Francesco, De Stefanis, Cristiano, Giordano, Ugo, Manco, Melania, Mosca, Antonella, Nobili, Valerio, Silecchia, Gianfranco   +10 more
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Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in adolescents with or without syndromic obesity: two years follow-up [PDF]

, 2017
Introduction Childhood obesity is an emerging health problem. Surgical treatment of obese adolescents, particularly those affected by congenital syndrome, represents a controversial issue.
ABBATINI, FRANCESCA, Brad Michael Watkins,, Emanuela Ceriati,, Francesco De Peppo,, IOSSA, ANGELO, Romina Caccamo,, SILECCHIA, Gianfranco   +6 more
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More risks and complications for elective spine surgery in morbidly obese patients

Surgical neurology international, 2017
Background: The vast majority of studies emphasize the greater morbidity/mortality for elective spine surgery in morbidly obese patients. Methods: This review focuses on the increased morbidity/mortality of performing elective spinal operations in ...
N. Epstein
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Smoking among morbidly obese patients

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2010
Background Smokers usually have a lower Body Mass Index (BMI) when compared to non-smokers. Such a relationship, however, has not been fully studied in obese and morbidly obese patients.
Chatkin José M, Mottin Claudio C, Chatkin Raquel   +2 more
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Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty Is Not Associated With Increased Revision Rates in Obese Patients

Arthroplasty Today, 2021
Background: There is controversy among arthroplasty surgeons in regard to performing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) in obese patients based on current literature.
Kevin F. Purcell, MD, Benjamin M. Stronach, MD, Marie Gene Almand, BS, Doug Parsell, PhD, Trevor Pickering, MD, R. Kerk Mehrle, MD, Craig Winkler, MD, Jeff D. Almand, MD   +7 more
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Obesity as a risk factor following cadaveric renal transplantation [PDF]

, 1990
Obesity has generally been thought to increase the risk of operative mortality and postoperative complications in surgical patients. No data examining obesity as a factor in cadaveric renal transplantation were available.
Hakala, TR, Holley, JL, Lopatin, WB, Shapiro, R, Starzl, TE, Tzakis, AG   +5 more
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Prone position: Does it help with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)? [PDF]

, 2017
Introduction: Lung protective ventilation therapy with low tidal volume-high PEEP is the standard treatment for the patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
Azimzadeh, Nava, Baram, Michael, Cavarocchi, Nicholas C., Hirose, Hitoshi   +3 more
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Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery of morbidly obese patients induces swift and persistent changes of the individual gut microbiota

Genome Medicine, 2016
BackgroundRoux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is an effective means to achieve sustained weight loss for morbidly obese individuals. Besides rapid weight reduction, patients achieve major improvements of insulin sensitivity and glucose homeostasis. Dysbiosis
A. Pallejà, A. Kashani, K. Allin, T. Nielsen, Chenchen Zhang, Yin Li, Thorsten Brach, Suisha Liang, Q. Feng, N. B. Jørgensen, K. N. Bojsen-Møller, C. Dirksen, K. Burgdorf, J. Holst, S. Madsbad, Jun Wang, O. Pedersen, T. Hansen, Manimozhiyan Arumugam   +18 more
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Evaluation of Extended Interval Dosing Aminoglycosides in the Morbidly Obese Population

Advances in Pharmacological Sciences, 2013
Aminoglycoside dosing has been studied in the obese population, typically recommending an adjusted weight utilizing a 40% dosing weight correction factor (IBW + 0.4 × (TBW–IBW)).
Ashley L. Ross, Jennifer L. Tharp, Gerald R. Hobbs, Richard McKnight, Aaron Cumpston   +4 more
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Anaesthesia for caesarean section in a morbidly obese parturient with history of lignocaine allergy: A case report

Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare, 2022
Morbidly obese obstetric patients present multiple challenges to the anaesthetist for labour analgesia and anaesthesia for caesarean section. The superiority of regional anaesthesia (RA) using local anaesthetics (LA) to all other techniques in the obese ...
Pamela Chia, Shang-Ming Cheng, Sze-Chin Tan, Ban Leong Sng   +3 more
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