Omentectomy in Addition to Bariatric Surgery—a 5-Year Follow-up

Daniel P. Andersson,Daniel Eriksson Hogling,Jesper Bäckdahl,Anders Thorell,Patrik Löfgren,Mikael Rydén,Peter Arner,Johan Hoffstedt

Omentectomy in Addition to Bariatric Surgery—a 5-Year Follow-up

2017

Daniel P. Andersson
Daniel Eriksson Hogling
Jesper Bäckdahl
Anders Thorell
Patrik Löfgren
Mikael Rydén
Peter Arner
Johan Hoffstedt

Aim Omentectomy in addition to bariatric surgery has been suggested to improve metabolic outcome but short-term (6–24 months) studies have refuted this notion. We investigated whether there was any long-term impact of omentectomy.

Keywords:

General surgery
Insulin resistance
Clinical trial
Diabetes mellitus
Omentectomy
Surgery
Medicine
5 year follow up
visceral fat
gastric bypass

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