Combined liver transplantation and sleeve gastrectomy for end-stage liver disease in a bariatric patient: first european case-report.
CONCLUSION Despite the ideal approach to the management of the obese LT patients remains unknown, we strongly support the combined procedure during LT in selected patients, offering advantages in terms of allograft and patient survival, maintenance of weigh loss that will ultimately reduce obese related co-morbidities.
Source: International Journal of Surgery Case Reports - Category: Surgery Source Type: research
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