Erschienen in:
08.09.2020 | Letter to the Editor
Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Patients with Ventricular Assist Devices, Beyond Just Bridging to Heart Transplantation
verfasst von:
Adrian daSilva-deAbreu, Bader Aldeen Alhafez, Hamang Patel, Juan Francisco Loro-Ferrer, Hector O. Ventura, Carl J. Lavie, Stacy A. Mandras
Erschienen in:
Obesity Surgery
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Ausgabe 12/2020
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Excerpt
We read with interest the study of Van Aelst et al. [
1], who described the outcomes of the three patients with ventricular assist devices (VADs) after undergoing laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) with the intention of improving their candidacy for heart transplantation (HT). In their series, two of the three patients lost enough weight and were listed for HT, while the third one did not achieve such endpoint due to behavioral contraindications. Although their high success rate (of listing for HT) is similar to what has been observed in other cohorts with higher preoperative body mass indices (BMIs) [
2‐
4], their patients had a relatively short hospital stay and no adverse events. …