Bariatric surgery
Subtitle: a primer for your medical practice
By: edited by Francis A. Farraye, R. Armour Forse.
Contributors: Farraye, Francis A.; Forse, R. Armour.
Publisher: SLACK Inc.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Thorofare, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781556427367
Subjects: Obesity -- Surgery.; Morbid obesity -- Surgery.; Obesity -- surgery.; Bariatrics -- methods.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The obesity epidemic / John Pender, Walter J. Pories; title: Medical treatment of obesity / Heather Kaufman Stein, Jennifer Rosenblum; title: Choice of bariatric surgical procedures / David Lambert, Armour Forse; title: Preoperative evaluation of the patient undergoing bariatric surgery / Nawfal Istfan; title: Anesthesia issues in patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery / Keith Lewis; title: Gastric bypass surgery in the pediatric and elderly patient / Caroline M. Apovian; title: Immediate postoperative complications / Donald Hess; title: Nutritional consequences after bariatric surgery / Wendy Anderson; title: Medical management of the patient after gastric-bypass surgery: re-evaluating chronic disease and assessing the symptomatic patient / Marie McDonnell, Caroline Apovian; title: Endoscopy after bariatric surgery / Christopher Huang, Francis Farraye; title: Imaging of the gastrointestinal tract after bariatric surgery / Jorge Soto; title: Psychological issues and the bariatric surgery patient / Frank Perna, Linda Lin.