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Bariatric Surgery in Children

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Severe or morbid obesity, with a BMI exceeding 35–40, is often refractory to all therapies other than surgery. Bariatric or weight loss surgery is not generally recommended in childhood as it is fraught with ethical issues and the potential long-term benefits and complications of enteric diversion are not yet fully understood. On the other hand, it has been suggested that bariatric surgery in adolescents may have less complications and a shorter hospital stay than in adults. The long-term implications of bariatric surgery in children are not yet fully understood, and diligent long-term follow-up of all these patients is required to help determine this.

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  1. Department of Surgery and Trauma, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Mansoor Ali Khan

  2. Department of General Surgery, Northern General Hospital, Herries Rd, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S5 7AU, UK

    Roger Ackroyd

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  1. Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, Washington, USA

    Daniel J. Ledbetter

  2. Academic Pediatric Surgery Unit, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Paul R.V. Johnson

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Khan, M.A., Ackroyd, R. (2018). Bariatric Surgery in Children. In: Ledbetter, D., Johnson, P. (eds) Endocrine Surgery in Children. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-54256-9_17

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