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Published in: Obesity Surgery 6/2021

01-06-2021 | Obesity | Letter to the Editor

Metabolic/Bariatric Surgery during COVID-19

Author: Henry Buchwald

Published in: Obesity Surgery | Issue 6/2021

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Most, if not all, metabolic/bariatric surgery has been cancelled or delayed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Certainly, the number of metabolic/bariatric procedures for 2020 will fall well below the 250,000 performed in 2019, which were only 1–2% of criteria-eligible patients. Hospital decision makers have uniformly designated metabolic/bariatric surgery as elective, an optional treatment to choose at any time rather than one needed urgently. Is this really true? …
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Title
Metabolic/Bariatric Surgery during COVID-19
Author
Henry Buchwald
Publication date
01-06-2021
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Obesity Surgery / Issue 6/2021
Print ISSN: 0960-8923
Electronic ISSN: 1708-0428
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-021-05254-8

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