Preoperative weight loss decreases the operative time of gastric bypass at a veterans administration hospital

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 508-512

  Huerta, Sergio ^a   Dredar, Serag ^a   Hayden, Elizabeth ^a   Siddiqui, Ali A ^a   Anthony, Thomas ^a   Asolati, Massimo ^a   Varela, J Esteban ^a   Livingston, Edward H ^a  

^a VA NORTH TEXAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Postoperative complications; RYGB; Staged operations; Super obesity; Weight reduction surgery

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ANESTHESIOLOGY CLASS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; JEJUNUM ULCER; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; STOMACH BYPASS; VETERAN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL STAPLING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 43049112374     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-007-9334-5     Document Type: Article

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