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Perioperative Diet Management in Bariatric Surgery

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Bariatric surgery is an effective weight loss procedure in morbidly obese people. A short term pre-operative energy restrictive diet or ‘liver shrinkage diet’ is widely accepted practice to reduce the fatty liver mass and to improve the liver flexibility [1]. This occurs by reduction of glycogen and lipid stores and reduction of visceral adipose tissue depots. This enables easy access to the upper stomach and oesophagus during liver retraction [1–4]. Preoperative weight loss has been shown to improve control of co-morbidities, decrease operative times and improve percentage of excess weight loss in the short term [5]. In addition some studies have also demonstrated a decrease in postoperative complications [6, 7].

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  1. Bariatric Division, Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery and Minimal Access Surgery Unit, GEM Hospital and Research Centre, Coimbatore, India

    Parimala Devi MSc & Praveen Raj Palanivelu MS, DNB, DNB (SGE), FALS, FMAS

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Devi, P., Palanivelu, P.R. (2017). Perioperative Diet Management in Bariatric Surgery. In: Kumar, S., Gomes, R. (eds) Bariatric Surgical Practice Guide. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2705-5_32

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