Combined liver transplantation and sleeve gastrectomy: Report of a brief-interval staged approach

Autor: Nabil Tariq, Ashish Saharia, Ugoeze Nwokedi, Mark J. Hobeika, Constance M. Mobley, David Hsu, Lucy M. Potter, Linda W. Moore, Ahmed Elaileh, Vadim Sherman, R. Mark Ghobrial
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation SocietyREFERENCES.
ISSN: 1527-6473
Popis: Pretransplantation bariatric surgery in patients with high Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score is fraught with risks. Bariatric surgery after liver transplantation (LT) may be complicated by surgical adhesions but could have advantages if performed at the time of transplantation. We investigated a method of brief-interval staging combining LT and sleeve gastrectomy (SG). LT recipients with a body mass index (BMI) 40 kg/m
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