Bariatric surgery in obese patients with ventricular assist devices

OBJECTIVES: Patients with end-stage heart failure (ESHF) treated with ventricular assist devices (VADs) tend to gain weight, which may prevent them from receiving heart transplantation (HT) if their body mass index (BMI) reaches ≥ 35 kg/m(2). The objective was to synthesize all cases available in th...

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Autores principales: daSilva-deAbreu, Adrian, Alhafez, Bader Aldeen, Curbelo-Pena, Yuhamy, Lavie, Carl J., Ventura, Hector O., Loro-Ferrer, Juan Francisco, Mandras, Stacy A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7427728/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32795382
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05221-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7427728/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32795382
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05221-z

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