Digestive adaptation: A new surgical proposal to treat obesity based on physiology and evolution

Digestive adaptation: A new surgical proposal to treat obesity based on physiology and evolution

Objective: To report on a new surgical technique to treat obesity -Digestive Adaptation - and to present its preliminary results.Method: The technique includes a vertical (sleeve) gastrectomy,omentectomy and enterectomy maintaining the initial 150-cmportionof the jejunum and the final 150-cm-portion...

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Main Authors: Sérgio Santoro, Manoel Carlos Prieto Velhote, Carlos Eduardo Malzoni, Alexandre Sérgio Gracia Mechenas, Victor Strassmann, Morton Scheinberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein 2003-06-01
Series:Einstein (São Paulo)
Subjects:
Obesity
morbid/surgery
Plasminogen activator inhibitor 1
Omentum/physiology
Adipose tissue/physiopathology
Gastrectomy/methods
Peptide hormones
Citokines/physiology
Online Access:http://www.einstein.br/biblioteca/artigos/digestive%20adaptation%20original.pdf

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