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2003
Obesity is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Surgery for morbid obesity may be considered when other conventional measures have failed, and a number of procedures are available. However, the effects of these surgical procedures compared with medical management and with each other are uncertain.To assess the effects of surgery for ...
J, Colquitt +3 more
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Obesity is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Surgery for morbid obesity may be considered when other conventional measures have failed, and a number of procedures are available. However, the effects of these surgical procedures compared with medical management and with each other are uncertain.To assess the effects of surgery for ...
J, Colquitt +3 more
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The Effect of Obesity Surgery on Obesity Comorbidity
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 2006Obesity is epidemic in the modern world. It is becoming increasingly clear that obesity is a major cause of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and renal disease, as well as a host of other comorbidities. There are at present no generally effective long-term medical therapies for obesity.
Marshall J, Bouldin +5 more
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PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF OBESITY AND OBESITY SURGERY
Surgical Clinics of North America, 2001There is a growing consensus that bariatric surgery is the treatment of choice for extremely obese individuals who have failed to reduce their weight satisfactorily using behavioral or pharmacologic interventions. The gastric bypass in particular is associated with excellent long-term weight loss.
T A, Wadden +5 more
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COMPLICATIONS OF SURGERY FOR OBESITY
Surgical Clinics of North America, 2001Morbidly obese patients are already considered high-risk because of their comorbidities. Surgical procedures for obesity are, for the most part, completely elective. Careful counseling of the patient before and after the surgery is extremely important.
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Gastroenterology Clinics of North America, 1987
Assessment of the outcome of obesity operations is exceedingly complex. Currently there is no consensus among bariatric surgeons as to what constitutes successful weight loss. Furthermore, weight loss data must be regularly reevaluated to account for later regaining of lost weight.
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Assessment of the outcome of obesity operations is exceedingly complex. Currently there is no consensus among bariatric surgeons as to what constitutes successful weight loss. Furthermore, weight loss data must be regularly reevaluated to account for later regaining of lost weight.
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Gastroenterology Clinics of North America, 1987
Modern imaging modalities are the key to prompt evaluation of the efficacy and complications of obesity surgery. These are divided into the early and late complications of gastric restrictive surgery and intestinal bypass surgery.
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Modern imaging modalities are the key to prompt evaluation of the efficacy and complications of obesity surgery. These are divided into the early and late complications of gastric restrictive surgery and intestinal bypass surgery.
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[Obesity and plastic surgery].
Annali italiani di chirurgia, 2005The number of the bariatric surgical procedures to obtain a body weight loss is increasing, and will be higher in the years to come. The plastic surgeons are witnessing in parallel a meaningful growth of requests for surgical procedures to obtain a reshaping of body profiles after the procedures of bariatric surgery The surgical techniques of ...
Scuderi N, ALFANO, Carmine, Mezzana P.
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JAMA, 2003
AS BARIATRIC SURGERY FOR THE treatment of patients with morbid obesity surges in popularity in the United States, ethical and scientific questions about the approach are mounting. While bariatric surgery has been performed since the 1960s, improvements in laproscopic methods and a 1991 Consensus Statement by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that
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AS BARIATRIC SURGERY FOR THE treatment of patients with morbid obesity surges in popularity in the United States, ethical and scientific questions about the approach are mounting. While bariatric surgery has been performed since the 1960s, improvements in laproscopic methods and a 1991 Consensus Statement by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that
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