Obesity and organ transplantation: Successes, failures, and opportunities

Nutrition in Clinical Practice

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 171-191

  Dicecco, Sara R ^a   Francisco Ziller, Nickie ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

bariatric surgery; body mass index; obesity; organ failure; organ transplant; weight loss; weight reduction programs

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; FOLLOW UP; GENOMICS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY VASCULAR RESISTANCE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNDERWEIGHT; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND COMPLICATION;

BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS INDEX; OBESITY; ORGAN FAILURE; ORGAN TRANSPLANT; WEIGHT LOSS; WEIGHT REDUCTION PROGRAMS;

HUMANS; OBESITY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84896353952     PISSN: 08845336     EISSN: 19412452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0884533613518585     Document Type: Review

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