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Obesity Surgery
Published in: Obesity Surgery 8/2016

01-08-2016 | Letter to the Editor

Postoperative Mortality After Bariatric Surgery: Do the Numbers Reflect the Reality?

Authors: Tarek Debs, Niccolo Petrucciani, Antonio Iannelli, Radwan Kassir, Eric Sejor, Imed Ben Amor, Jean Gugenheim

Published in: Obesity Surgery | Issue 8/2016

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Excerpt

Obesity has emerged as a major public health problem worldwide in the last decade. Surgery has proven to be the only effective sustained weight loss option for many patients. The number of bariatric procedures has substantially increased every year in the last decade. In France, 47,084 patients underwent a bariatric intervention in 2014, which represents almost the quadruple of interventions done in 2005 [1]. …
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Metadata
Title
Postoperative Mortality After Bariatric Surgery: Do the Numbers Reflect the Reality?
Authors
Tarek Debs
Niccolo Petrucciani
Antonio Iannelli
Radwan Kassir
Eric Sejor
Imed Ben Amor
Jean Gugenheim
Publication date
01-08-2016
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Obesity Surgery / Issue 8/2016
Print ISSN: 0960-8923
Electronic ISSN: 1708-0428
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-016-2268-z

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