Laparoscopic adjustable gastric band in an obese unrelated living donor prior to kidney transplantation: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Obese living donors who undergo donor nephrectomy have higher rates of intra-operative and post-operative complications. Many centres exclude obese donors from living donor transplant programs. Diet, exercise and medication are often ineffective weight loss interventions for donors, he...

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Autores principales: Koshy, Anoop N, Wilkinson, Stephen, Coombes, Jeff S, Fassett, Robert G
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20403195
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-107

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