Bariatric surgery in obese patients with ventricular assist devices

Autor: Adrian daSilva-deAbreu, Bader Aldeen Alhafez, Yuhamy Curbelo-Pena, Carl J. Lavie, Hector O. Ventura, Juan Francisco Loro-Ferrer, Stacy A. Mandras
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: BMC Research Notes, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-3 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1756-0500
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-020-05221-z
Popis: Abstract Objectives Patients with end-stage heart failure (ESHF) treated with ventricular assist devices (VADs) tend to gain weight, which may prevent them from receiving heart transplantation (HT) if their body mass index (BMI) reaches ≥ 35 kg/m2. The objective was to synthesize all cases available in the literature and describe the most important outcomes of bariatric surgery (BS) in VAD patients, including BMI trends, reaching a BMI
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