Community experience with small bowel bypass for morbid obesity. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • A comparison of small bowel bypass performed at university centers and by private practitioners in a large metropolitan area demonstrates definite stmilarities in terms of patient selection, mortality and morbidity, and weight loss results. The only aspect of small bowel bypass in the private sector that could be criticized would be the adequacy of follow-up. An operation with as many known and probably other unknown long-term complications as jejunoileal bypass necessitates prolonged careful patient follow-up. We belive the person most qualified to provide such follow-up is the surgeon who performed by bypass procedure.

publication date

  • December 1, 1976

Research

keywords

  • Intestine, Small
  • Obesity

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0017044655

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/0002-9610(76)90436-0

PubMed ID

  • 998847

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 132

issue

  • 6