Difficult decisions in bariatric surgery

Difficult decisions in bariatric surgery / John Alverdy, Yalini Vigneswaran, editors.

This book provides a practical guide to decision making within bariatric surgery. Through uniform and well-structured chapters, topics relating to patient selection, preoperative preparation, the ethics of bariatric surgery, choice of procedure, complications, late failure and management, malabsorpt...

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Other Authors: Alverdy, John C. (Editor), Vigneswaran, Yalini (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2021]
Series:Difficult decisions in surgery.
Subjects:
Obesity > Surgery.
Surgery.
Endocrinology.
Pediatrics.
surgery (health care function)
Obesity > Surgery
Endocrinology
Pediatrics
Surgery
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Table of Contents:
  • A patient, a surgeon, and an insurance agent walk into a bar
  • Evidence-Based Medicine and Decision Making
  • Bariatric surgery for uncontrolled hypertension
  • Diabetes is an indication for bariatric surgery
  • Procedure choice for treatment of diabetes
  • Should patients with obesity hypoventilation syndrome undergo bariatric surgery
  • Heart failure and bariatric surgery
  • Cornary Artery Disease and bariatric surgery
  • What are there nutritional "red flags" to look out for prior to bariatric surgery?
  • Are there psychiatric diagnoses that preclude safe bariatric surgery?
  • Does weight loss prior to surgery accurately predict success following bariatric surgery?
  • The ideal weight loss diet for preparing a patient for bariatric surgery
  • Is routine upper endoscopy and H. pylori testing indicated in advance of bariatric surgery?
  • Manometry is useful prior to bariatric surgery
  • Smoking cessation is essential prior to bariatric surgery
  • Is the insurance requirement for supervised weight loss prior to bariatric surgery an ethical strategy to prevent non-compliant patients from undergoing surgery?
  • Bariatric surgery in the young pediatric population
  • Gastric banding, what happened?
  • What is the role of bariatric surgery in the management of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis?
  • Is Roux in Y gastric bypass less safe than sleeve gastrectomy?
  • The national shift to sleeve gastrectomy
  • long term disappointment and recidivism?
  • Single-stage Duodenal Switch Is Better Than Two-Stage
  • Reoperation for repair of anastomotic leak
  • Gastric sleeve stricture, twist or kink, now what?
  • Hiatal hernia complicating bariatric surgery
  • Duodenal switch and reflux control
  • Endoscopic management of the dilated gastrojejunal anastomoses
  • When to include medical therapy for late failure after bariatric surgery
  • Does resizing the gastric pouch aid in weight loss?
  • Does stoma size matter after gastric bypass?
  • Indications, choice of operation and outcomes of metabolic and bariatric surgery in children.
  • Pediatric bariatric surgery and developmental milestones
  • Surgical approaches for adolescents vs adults, which specialist should perform bariatric surgery in adolescents?
  • Will deep brain stimulation eventually replace bariatric surgery?
  • How manipulating the microbiome can affect the outcome following bariatric surgery.

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