Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: gateway to kidney transplantation.

CONCLUSION: LSG is safe and efficacious for treatment of obesity in renal transplant candidates. Rapid and sustained weight loss and subsequent waitlisting for kidney transplantation may reduce overall and in particular posttransplant patient morbidity.
PMID: 28216112 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery - January 5, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Kienzl-Wagner K, Weissenbacher A, Gehwolf P, Wykypiel H, Öfner D, Schneeberger S Tags: Surg Obes Relat Dis Source Type: research