COMPARISON OF HEPATIC PROFILE IN PRE AND POSTOPERATIVE OF BARIATRIC SURGERY: PRIVATE VS PUBLIC NETWORK

Autor: Antônio Alves-Júnior, Taianne Machado Nascimento, Marco Antonio Fontes Sarmento da Silva, Tiago Rodrigo Pereira de Freitas, Maria Rosa Melo Alves, Marco Antônio Prado Nunes
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: ABCD. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cirurgia Digestiva (São Paulo), Volume: 28, Issue: 4, Pages: 274-277, Published: DEC 2015
ABCD: Arquivos Brasileiros de Cirurgia Digestiva, Vol 28, Iss 4, Pp 274-277 (2015)
Arquivos Brasileiros de Cirurgia Digestiva : ABCD = Brazilian Archives of Digestive Surgery
ABCD. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cirurgia Digestiva (São Paulo) v.28 n.4 2015
ABCD. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cirurgia Digestiva (São Paulo)
Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgia Digestiva (CBCD)
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Popis: Background: Obesity is associated to several comorbidities, including nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, which implicates in isolated steatosis to steatohepatitis. The latter may progress to severe manifestations such as liver fibrosis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Aim: To compare the presence of advanced liver fibrosis before and after bariatric surgery in patients of private and public health system. Methods: Patients from public and privative networks were studied before and after bariatric surgery. The presence or absence of advanced hepatic fibrosis was evaluated by NAFLD Fibrosis Score, a non-invasive method that uses age, BMI, AST/ALT ratio, albumin, platelet count and the presence or absence of hyperglycemia or diabetes. The characteristics of the two groups were compared. The established statistical significance criterion was p
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