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Surgical Management of Weight Loss

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For millennia, severe obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2DM) were considered hopeless diseases. Without effective treatments, patients endured dietary limitations, drugs and injections with the recognition that early death, blindness, amputation and renal failure were the unavoidable outcomes. Bariatric surgery has sharply changed this dismal picture. Within only a few days these operations are followed by rapid, full and durable remission not only of T2DM and severe obesity but also of hypertension, dyslipidemias, polycystic ovary syndrome, non-alcoholic hepatic steatosis, gastro-esophageal reflux, sleep apnea. However, as in other therapies, there are also complications. The early ones are similar to other abdominal operations; the late complications are just now becoming more clear. This chapter will review bariatric surgery, its indications, and the major operations and provide an overview of early and late outcomes.

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  1. Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, East Carolina University/Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC, 27858, USA

    Dustin M. Bermudez MD (Clinical Instructor/Fellow)

  2. East Carolina University, Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, 27858, USA

    Sebastian DeMarco BA (Medical Student, Research Assistant) & Emily Cunningham BA (Research Assistant)

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    Walter Pories MD, FACS (Professor of Surgery)

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Bermudez, D.M., DeMarco, S., Cunningham, E., Pories, W. (2014). Surgical Management of Weight Loss. In: Mullin, G., Cheskin, L., Matarese, L. (eds) Integrative Weight Management. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0548-5_24

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