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13.05.2020 | COVID-19 | Letter to the Editor
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Reply To The Article “Bariatric Surgical Practice During the Initial Phase of COVID-19 Outbreak.” by Aminian, A., Kermansaravi, M., Azizi, S. et al. Published in Obesity Surgery
verfasst von:
Ramon Vilallonga, Ruth Blanco-Colino, Manel Armengol Carrasco
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Obesity Surgery
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Ausgabe 10/2020
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COVID-19 has rapidly spread worldwide since its outbreak in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Pandemic status was declared by World Health Organization in March 2020 [
2]. The authors report some of the cases that presented in Iran during the outbreak from 24th February to 4th March. Being the first cases declared from 19th to 25th February in Iran, there could be more patients affected by COVID-19 that could have undergone bariatric elective surgery at that time without being noticed by surgical teams [
3]. In fact, the same authors have reported previously a patient who died with morbid obesity, the day before and elective surgery for gastric bypass in Iran [
4] .As most of those affected countries in which systematic detection of COVID-19 by doing RT-PCR was not performed, means that we may be seeing the top of the iceberg by reporting only those cases who developed postoperative pneumonia. …
