Bariatric Surgery and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: a Systematic Review of Liver Biochemistry and Histology

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2280-2289

  Bower, Guy ^a   Toma, Tania ^a   Harling, Leanne ^a   Jiao, Long R ^a,c   Efthimiou, Evangelos ^a,b   Darzi, Ara ^a   Athanasiou, Thanos ^a   Ashrafian, Hutan ^a,b,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Body mass index; Intervention; Metabolic surgery; NAFLD; Non alcoholic fatty liver disease; Surgery; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; LIVER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LIVER INJURY; META ANALYSIS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEATOSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; METABOLISM; NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE; OBESITY, MORBID; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE;

BARIATRIC SURGERY; BIOMARKERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE; OBESITY, MORBID; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84947492756     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: 17080428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-015-1691-x     Document Type: Article

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