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Morbid Obesity with body mass index greater than 40 kg/m2. Morbid obesity with BMI greater than 35 kg/m2 with serious co-morbidities. Super obesity (BMI > 50 kg/m2) as a first stage of the duodenal switch. Patients should have been evaluated in a multidisciplinary bariatric surgical program and deemed appropriate for such surgical intervention.
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Alaeddine, M.H., Safadi, B.Y. (2012). Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy. In: Hoballah, J., Scott-Conner, MD, C. (eds) Operative Dictations in General and Vascular Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0451-4_29
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