Bariatric Surgery Provides a “Bridge to Transplant” for Morbidly Obese Patients with Advanced Heart Failure and May Obviate the Need for Transplantation

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 486-493

  Lim, Choon Pin ^a,b   Fisher, Oliver M ^c   Falkenback, Dan ^c,d   Boyd, Damien ^a   Hayward, Christopher S ^a   Keogh, Anne ^a   Samaras, Katherine ^a,e   MacDonald, Peter ^a   Lord, Reginald V ^c,f  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research   (Australia)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Congestive heart failure; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ADVANCED HEART FAILURE; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTRAAORTIC BALLOON PUMP; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; COMPLICATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; OBESITY, MORBID; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84959247580     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: 17080428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-015-1789-1     Document Type: Article

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