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Difficult Decisions in Bariatric Surgery

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Editors:
  1. John Alverdy

    1. Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

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  2. Yalini Vigneswaran

    1. Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

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Part of the book series: Difficult Decisions in Surgery: An Evidence-Based Approach (DDSURGERY)

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Table of contents (37 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introductory Materials

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. “A Patient, a Surgeon, and an Insurance Agent Walk into a Bar…”

      • John Alverdy
      Pages 3-4

    3. Evidence-Based Medicine and Decision Making

      • Grace F. Chao, Justin B. Dimick
      Pages 5-14

  3. Patient Selection

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Bariatric Surgery for Uncontrolled Hypertension

      • Kathleen Lak, Jon Gould
      Pages 17-24

    3. Diabetes as an Indication for Bariatric Surgery

      • Andrea Stroud, Ryland Stucke
      Pages 25-38

    4. Bariatric Procedure Selection in Diabetics

      • Andrea Stroud, Ryland Stucke
      Pages 39-47

    5. Should Patients with Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome Undergo Bariatric Surgery

      • Maximiliano Tamae-Kakazu
      Pages 49-57

    6. Bariatric Surgery in Heart Failure

      • Mark Belkin, John Blair
      Pages 59-66

    7. Bariatric Surgery in Those with Coronary Artery Disease

      • Nathan W. Kong, John E. A. Blair
      Pages 67-73

    8. What Are the Nutritional “Red Flags” to Look Out for Prior to Bariatric Surgery?

      • Jessica Schultz
      Pages 75-80

    9. Are There Psychiatric Diagnoses That Preclude Safe Bariatric Surgery?

      • Emily R. Fink, Leslie J. Heinberg
      Pages 81-90

    10. Does Weight Loss Prior to Surgery Accurately Predict Success Following Bariatric Surgery?

      • Maria E. Linnaus, Tammy Lyn Kindel
      Pages 91-97

    11. Optimization Prior to Knee and Hip Arthroplasty as an Indication for Bariatric Surgery

      • Alexander S. McLawhorn, David C. Landy
      Pages 99-108

  4. Preoperative Preparation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. The Ideal Preoperative Bariatric Surgery Diet

      • Megan Miller, Deborah Hutcheon, Shanu N. Kothari
      Pages 111-129

    3. Is Routine Upper Endoscopy and H. pylori Testing Indicated in Advance of Bariatric Surgery?

      • Matthew August Odenwald, Robert T. Kavitt
      Pages 131-142

    4. Manometry is Useful Prior to Bariatric Surgery

      • Anna M. Lipowska
      Pages 143-153

    5. Smoking Cessation Is Essential Prior to Bariatric Surgery

      • Shushmita M. Ahmed, Victoria Lyo
      Pages 155-166
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About this book

This book provides a practical guide to decision making within bariatric surgery. Through uniform and well-structured chapters, topics relating to patient selection, preoperative preparation, the ethics of bariatric surgery, choice of procedure, complications, late failure and management, malabsorptive procedures, and pediatric bariatric surgery are discussed and examined.

Difficult Decisions in Bariatric Surgery aims to help readers navigate an increasingly complex surgical specialty and come to reasoned and evidence-based conclusions. This book is of interest to practicing and trainee surgeons, endocrinologists, endoscopists, and pediatricians.

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

    John Alverdy, Yalini Vigneswaran

About the editors

Dr. Alverdy is the Sarah and Harold Lincoln Thompson Professor of Surgery and Executive Vice-Chair of the department of surgery at the University of Chicago. Dr Alverdy is the director of the Center for Surgical Infection Research at the University of Chicago that studies the microbial pathogenesis of infections that develop following surgery including sepsis, wound infection, and anastomotic leak. He has been funded by the NIH for this work since 1999. He is the co-PI on a T32 training grant and has trained over 30 postdoctoral fellows in his laboratory over the last 25 years. Dr Alverdy is the co-associate director of the Digestive Disease Research Center Core (DDRCC- Eugene Chang MD Director) and a fellow of the Institute of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. He is past president of the Surgical Infection Society North America.


Dr. Alverdy attended medical school at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara and Loyola University and received his surgical training at the Michael Reese Hospital/University of Chicago. He completed a surgical research fellowship at the University of California San Francisco. Dr Alverdy has an active gastrointestinal surgery practice involving minimally invasive surgery of the foregut including esophagus, stomach and pancreatobiliary tree. 



Dr. Vigneswaran is an assistant professor of advanced gastrointestinal and bariatric surgery in the department of surgery at the University of Chicago.  She received degrees in chemical engineering and molecular & cellular biology at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and received her medical degree from Rush University.  She completed surgical training at the University of Chicago and surgical fellowship in minimally invasive gastrointestinal surgery at the Oregon Health & Sciences University.  In addition, she received a masters in public health sciences at the University of Chicago with which she continues to study clinical outcomes in gastrointestinal surgery.  Dr Vigneswaran maintains a busy clinical practice in bariatric and advanced gastrointestinal surgery, including complex esophageal and foregut diseases as well as revisional bariatric surgery.  Her practice of minimally invasive surgery includes a robust robotic surgery practice and she continues to advance the field in minimally invasive surgery.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Difficult Decisions in Bariatric Surgery

  • Editors: John Alverdy, Yalini Vigneswaran

  • Series Title: Difficult Decisions in Surgery: An Evidence-Based Approach

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55329-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55328-9Published: 08 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55331-9Published: 09 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55329-6Published: 07 December 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2198-7750

  • Series E-ISSN: 2198-7769

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 438

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Surgery, Endocrinology, Pediatrics

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