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ASMBS Position Statements

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The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) publishes position statements in response to numerous inquiries made to the society by patients, physicians, society members, hospitals, and others regarding a particular topic relevant to the field. In these statements, available data are summarized, and recommendations for treatment are made based on current knowledge, expert opinion, and published peer-reviewed scientific evidence available at the time. The ASMBS leadership also collaborates with other medical societies to develop and publish practice guidelines that are relevant to the care of the bariatric surgery patient. This chapter summarizes the current position statements of the ASMBS.

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  1. Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Stacy A. Brethauer

  2. Department of General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Xiaoxi (Chelsea) Feng

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Surgery, Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA, USA

    Ninh T. Nguyen

  2. Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Stacy A. Brethauer

  3. Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery Division, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    John M. Morton

  4. Bariatric Surgery, Metabolic and Bariatric Care, CHI Memorial Hospital, Chattanooga, TN, USA

    Jaime Ponce

  5. Department of General Surgery, The Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA

    Raul J. Rosenthal

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Brethauer, S.A., Feng, X.(. (2020). ASMBS Position Statements. In: Nguyen, N., Brethauer, S., Morton, J., Ponce, J., Rosenthal, R. (eds) The ASMBS Textbook of Bariatric Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27021-6_11

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