Major liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma in the morbidly obese: A proposed strategy to improve outcome

BACKGROUND: Morbid obesity strongly predicts morbidity and mortality in surgical patients. However, obesity's impact on outcome after major liver resection is unknown. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe the management of a large hepatocellular carcinoma in a morbidly obese patient (body mass index...

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Autores principales: Barakat, Omar, Skolkin, Mark D, Toombs, Barry D, Fischer, John H, Ozaki, Claire F, Wood, R Patrick
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Technical Innovations
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2542372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18783621
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-100
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author Barakat, Omar
Skolkin, Mark D
Toombs, Barry D
Fischer, John H
Ozaki, Claire F
Wood, R Patrick
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Skolkin, Mark D
Toombs, Barry D
Fischer, John H
Ozaki, Claire F
Wood, R Patrick
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description BACKGROUND: Morbid obesity strongly predicts morbidity and mortality in surgical patients. However, obesity's impact on outcome after major liver resection is unknown. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe the management of a large hepatocellular carcinoma in a morbidly obese patient (body mass index >50 kg/m(2)). Additionally, we propose a strategy for reducing postoperative complications and improving outcome after major liver resection. CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, this is the first report of major liver resection in a morbidly obese patient with hepatocellular carcinoma. The approach we used could make this operation nearly as safe in obese patients as it is in their normal-weight counterparts.
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spelling pubmed-25423722008-09-18 Major liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma in the morbidly obese: A proposed strategy to improve outcome Barakat, Omar Skolkin, Mark D Toombs, Barry D Fischer, John H Ozaki, Claire F Wood, R Patrick World J Surg Oncol Technical Innovations BACKGROUND: Morbid obesity strongly predicts morbidity and mortality in surgical patients. However, obesity's impact on outcome after major liver resection is unknown. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe the management of a large hepatocellular carcinoma in a morbidly obese patient (body mass index >50 kg/m(2)). Additionally, we propose a strategy for reducing postoperative complications and improving outcome after major liver resection. CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, this is the first report of major liver resection in a morbidly obese patient with hepatocellular carcinoma. The approach we used could make this operation nearly as safe in obese patients as it is in their normal-weight counterparts. BioMed Central 2008-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC2542372/ /pubmed/18783621 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-100 Text en Copyright © 2008 Barakat et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Barakat, Omar
Skolkin, Mark D
Toombs, Barry D
Fischer, John H
Ozaki, Claire F
Wood, R Patrick
Major liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma in the morbidly obese: A proposed strategy to improve outcome
title Major liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma in the morbidly obese: A proposed strategy to improve outcome
title_full Major liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma in the morbidly obese: A proposed strategy to improve outcome
title_fullStr Major liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma in the morbidly obese: A proposed strategy to improve outcome
title_full_unstemmed Major liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma in the morbidly obese: A proposed strategy to improve outcome
title_short Major liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma in the morbidly obese: A proposed strategy to improve outcome
title_sort major liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma in the morbidly obese: a proposed strategy to improve outcome
topic Technical Innovations
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2542372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18783621
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-100
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