The Perfect Sleeve Gastrectomy A Clinical Guide to Evaluation, Treat
Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) is the most common bariatric procedure, accounting for more than 55% of all such surgeries performed worldwide. Obesity has become a major global problem that continues to spread in both developed and developing countries. Whi
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The Perfect Sleeve Gastrectomy
Michel Gagner • Almino Ramos Cardoso Mariano Palermo • Patrick Noel • David Nocca Editors
The Perfect Sleeve Gastrectomy A Clinical Guide to Evaluation, Treatment, and Techniques
Editors Michel Gagner Department of Surgery Sacré-Coeur Hospital Montréal, QC Canada Mariano Palermo Diagnomed University of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina
Almino Ramos Cardoso Bariatric Surgery Gastro Obeso Center Sao Paulo Brazil Patrick Noel Emirates Specialty Hospital Dubai United Arab Emirates
David Nocca CHU Montpellier Saint Gely du Fesc France
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Foreword
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler”. Albert Einstein
The air-conditioned room at the restaurant in the Upper East Side felt like a shelter from the heat wave of the early summer of 1999 in New York City. My colleagues and I had just arrived in town to start our minimally invasive surgery fellowship at Mount Sinai and some of us were still struggling to fight the jet lag during the dinner. “Tomorrow is going to be a great day” – said suddenly Dr Michel Gagner, interrupting my explanation of the meaning of Tiramisu for my non-Italian colleagues around the table. The next day – he explained – he would make an attempt to perform biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch (BPD) through a laparoscopic approach. Although we did not know much about duodenal switch at the time, it seemed clear we had arrived just in time to see a surgical first! That night, however, none of us could predict that t
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