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01-09-2008 | Editorial

An Evidenced-based Assessment of Preoperative Weight Loss in Bariatric Surgery

Authors: Michael Tarnoff, Lee M. Kaplan, Scott Shikora

Published in: Obesity Surgery | Issue 9/2008

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Surgeons in all disciplines have always known that obese patients suffer from a higher incidence of perioperative complications than more normal-weight individuals. In addition to the physiologic derangements and comorbid conditions associated with obesity (i.e., type II diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea, etc.), the presence of excess abdominal fat also increases the technical difficulties of the operative procedure and jeopardizes the healing response thereby compromising the integrity of surgical repairs, organ function and the incisions used in modern surgery [1‐7]. …

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Title: An Evidenced-based Assessment of Preoperative Weight Loss in Bariatric Surgery
Authors: Michael Tarnoff
Lee M. Kaplan
Scott Shikora
Publication date: 01-09-2008
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Obesity Surgery / Issue 9/2008
Print ISSN: 0960-8923
Electronic ISSN: 1708-0428
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-008-9603-y

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