Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, An Issue of Surgical Clinics

Download or read book Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, An Issue of Surgical Clinics written by Shanu Kothari and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2011-12-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive review of bariatric and metabolic surgery for the general surgery! Topics include: The obesity epidemic/economic impact and diabetes epidemic/economic impact, physiology of obesity/diabetes, physiology of weight loss surgery, history of bariatric surgery, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, sleeve gastrectomy, biliopancreatic diversion/duodenal switch, laparoscopic gastric bypass, complications of laparoscopic adjustable gastric binding, complications of laparoscopic gastric bypass, outcomes/comparative effectiveness studies, co-morbidity reduction data, economic impact of bariatric surgery, adolescent bariatric surgery, revisional bariatric surgery, the future of bariatric surgery, and more!