As internists and specialists in digestive disorders, endoscopists and gastroenterologists are in a unique position to play an important role in obesity treatment. It is important to pay attention to gastrointestinal symptoms and other comorbidities of obese patients, and even more important to ...
Bariatric Surgeon: Bariatric surgeons focus on surgical weight loss procedures, such as gastric bypass or gastric sleeve surgery, to treat severe obesity and related health conditions. Transplant Surgeon: Transplant surgeons perform organ transplantation surgeries, such as kidney, liver, heart, lung, and...
When my son was about 7 months old we were already seeing many specialists, like gastroenterologists, feeding specialists, physical and occupational therapists. His pediatrician sent us to a neuropsychology center for a full work up where a social worker sat me down to talk about fetal alcohol s...
(5) At present, approximately 1 percent of eligible individuals with morbid obesity receive bariatric surgery. In addition, there appears to be inequity in access to weight loss surgery, say gastroenterologists from Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. ...
by gastroenterologists, but has finally arrived in main- stream therapeutics. However, this epiphany occurred in diabetes and obesity, where extensive research is driven by huge markets and unmet clinical needs. In this thor- ough review, Janssen et al. describe the glucagon-like ...