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Background: Bariatric surgery is the only effective long-term treatment for morbid obesity. We compared long-term results of the vertical banded gastroplasty (VBG) and biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch (DS). Quality of life (QoL), weight loss (WL), and reoperation were evaluated. Methods: This is a retrospective study of 85 of 129 patients with VBG and 49 of 743 patients with DS, with...
Background: Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is the most common histological finding in morbidly obese patients undergoing liver biopsy. Biliopancreatic diversion has been widely used for the treatment of morbid obesity and hepatic steatosis, and very few cases of liver impairment as a complication of this operation have been reported. Methods: During the last 9 years, 470 morbidly obese patients...
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