Serological biomarker testing helps avoiding unnecessary endoscopies in obese patients before bariatric surgery

ConclusionsThe normal biomarker profile is an excellent surrogate for healthy stomach, implicating that pre-operative EGDS could have been avoided in 31% of our asymptomatic bariatric surgery patients who had the normal biomarker profile.

http://link.springer.com/10.1186/s40608-018-0185-5

Source: BMC Obesity - February 20, 2018 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Source Type: research