Preoperative weight loss in super-obese patients: study of the rate of weight loss and its effects on surgical morbidity

OBJECTIVES: The incidence of obesity and particularly super obesity, has increased tremendously. At our institution, super obesity represents 30.1% of all severely obese individuals in the bariatric surgery program. In super obesity, surgical morbidity is higher and the results are worse compared wi...

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Autores principales: Santo, Marco Aurelio, Riccioppo, Daniel, Pajecki, Denis, de Cleva, Roberto, Kawamoto, Flavio, Cecconello, Ivan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo 2014
Materias:
Clinical Science
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4286674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25627995
http://dx.doi.org/10.6061/clinics/2014(12)07

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