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Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents

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Bariatric surgery is increasingly applied to the adolescents with the dramatic increase in obesity in this population. While there are technical similarities to the adult procedures, there are special considerations needed for application to pediatric patients. The interventions most commonly utilized are the gastric bypass and the sleeve gastrectomy. This chapter will review the physiologic, metabolic, and technical point relevant to successful surgical management of the adolescent with obesity. Surgical management of obesity has demonstrated excellent outcomes with improvement in comorbidities.

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  1. Department of Pediatric Surgery, Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, 219 Bryant St., Buffalo, NY, 14222, USA

    Robert Michael Dorman & Carroll M. Harmon

  2. General Surgery, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    J. Hunter Mehaffey

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  1. Division of Pediatric Surgery, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina, USA

    Danielle S. Walsh

  2. Northeast Ohio Medical College Division of Pediatric Surgery, Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, Ohio, USA

    Todd A. Ponsky

  3. Division of Pediatric Surgery, Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, Ohio, USA

    Nicholas E. Bruns

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Dorman, R.M., Mehaffey, J.H., Harmon, C.M. (2017). Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents. In: Walsh, D., Ponsky, T., Bruns, N. (eds) The SAGES Manual of Pediatric Minimally Invasive Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43642-5_47

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