68 Bariatric and metabolic surgery

COST-EFFECTIVENESS A 2009 Health Technology Assessment report in the UK showed bariatric surgery ...

Complications The common complications are shown in Table 68.6 In sleeve gastrectomy , a staple l...

ELIGIBILITY Eligibility criteria were first proposed by the US National Institutes of Health in 1...

FURTHER READING Adams TD, Gress RE, Smith SC et al . Long-term mortality after gas - tric bypass ...

FUTURE CHALLENGES Patients with obesity su ff er from widespread prejudice. Under standing that th...

Follow-up and a shared care model of chronic disease Shared care arrangements with surgeons/physi...

INTRODUCTION Obesity is becoming the plague of the twenty-first century . With overweight becomin...

Laparoscopic surgery and enhanced recovery Bariatric surgery has been transformed by its amenabil...

Learning objectives To know and understand: How to treat obesity as a disease • Rationale for sur...

METABOLIC SURGERY The phrases ‘metabolic’ or ‘diabetes’ surgery are increasingly being used in co...

Outcomes reported There is wide variation in how surgeons report the results of surgery , which ...

PRINCIPLES OF SETTING UP A BARIATRIC/METABOLIC SURGERY SERVICE As for gastrointestinal cancer sur...

RATIONALE Bariatric surgery leads to weight loss of 25–35% of body weight (usually at least 15 ...

Randomised controlled trial evidence for the different types of surgery Some evidence suggests th...

Rationale for surgery Owing to the tendency for basal metabolic rate to decrease with dietary cal...

The common operations According to the IFSO Global Registry , in 2018 sleeve gastrec - tomy const...