Erschienen in:
18.12.2018 | Letter to Editor/LED Reply
Reply to “Crashing NASH in Patients Listed for Bariatric Surgery”
verfasst von:
Geraldine J. Ooi, Paul R. Burton, William W. Kemp, Stuart K. Roberts, Wendy A. Brown
Erschienen in:
Obesity Surgery
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We thank [G. Koek et al.] for their letter in response to our paper. They have brought up a valid discussion point regarding the use of pre-operative very low calorie diet (VLCD), and whether short-term pre-operative weight loss significantly alters the degree of liver inflammation or nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) observed on peri-operative biopsy specimens. …