Time-course of changes of visceral fat area, liver volume and liver fat area during intragastric balloon therapy in Japanese super-obese patients

Internal Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 2449-2455

  Sekino, Yusuke ^a   Imajo, Kento ^a   Sakai, Eiji ^a   Uchiyama, Takashi ^a   Iida, Hiroshi ^a   Endo, Hiroki ^a   Hosono, Kunihiro ^a   Sakamoto, Yasunari ^a   Fujita, Koji ^a   Yoneda, Masato ^a   Takahashi, Hirokazu ^a   Koide, Tomoko ^a   Tokoro, Chikako ^a   Abe, Yasunobu ^a   Saito, Satoru ^a   Maeda, Shin ^a   Gotoh, Eiji ^a   Takihata, Masahiro ^a   Terauchi, Yasuo ^a   Nakajima, Atsushi ^a   Inamori, Masahiko ^a   more..

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intragastric balloon therapy; Liver volume; Obesity; Visceral fat

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; LIVER ENZYME;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; INTRAGASTRIC BALLOON THERAPY; JAPANESE; LIVER FAT; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY WEIGHT; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRIC BALLOON; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; ORGAN SIZE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80455178540     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.50.5672     Document Type: Article

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