TEXTBOOK

UPDATE: SURGERY FOR THE MORBIDLY OBESE PATIENT
Includes Laparoscopy and Allied Care

560 pages, 196 illustrations, with index. Hardcover, ISBN 0-9684426-1-7 (published August 2000). Editor: Mervyn Deitel, MD; Co-Editor: George S.M. Cowan, MD with contributions by 88 authors, including: Claude Bouchard, Pauline Powers, Emanuel Hell, Lloyd MacLean, Nicola Scopinaro, Horacio Oria, Robert Brolin, Jan Greve, Pat O’Leary, Louis Martin, Martin Fried, Peter Forsell, Karl Miller, MAL Fobi, Edward Mason, Picard Marceau, Gertrude Mingrove, Ilan Charuzi, Miguel Herrera, Latham Flanagan, Hans Lönroth, Andrew Jamieson, Philip Schauer, Lars Boman, Iain Cleator, Cornelius Doherty, Boyd Terry, Cynthia Buffington, James Sapala, Barry Fisher, Simon Biron, James Maher, Shlomo Kyzer, Rafael Alvarez-Cordero, Rita Raman, Sayed Ikramuddin and many other experts..

Topics covered:
Etiology & genetics, eating disorders, obesity in children, resting energy expenditure, co-morbidities due to massive obesity, reversibility of insulin resistance, criteria for selection of patients for surgery, standards for bariatric surgeons, anesthesia, late complications of jejunoileal bypass, biliointestinal bypass, gastroplasties, gastric bypass, vitamin-mineral supplementation, breakdown of staple-lines, marginal ulceration, Fobi pouch, biliopancreatic diversion, limb-lengths, equipment for laparoscopic bariatric surgery, laparoscopic access, laparoscopic bariatric operations – gastroplasty and gastric bypass, laparoscopic gastric banding, upper GI endoscopy, revisions, sleep apnea, diabetes, hypertension, lipid abnormalities, gallbladder, gynecologic-obstetric features, medicolegal problems, quality of life, plastic surgery.

PRICE: US $100 (includes airmail). Prepayment required. Outside USA and Canada, add US $20. Also now included with each order, free of charge, classic original book: SURGERY FOR THE MORBIDLY OBESE PATIENT (published 1989, ISBN 0-9684426-0-9).

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