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Obesity Surgery Journal

Surgery for Obesity And Related Diseases (SOARD)

Brazilian Journal

OBESITY SURGERY

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Latest research, surgical techniques, laparoscopic procedures, patient-care, allied sciences, eating disorders, by world experts.

...Published since 1991; Indexed in Index Medicus; 12 issues per year; online back
to 1991. A medicolegal advantage for those performing this challenging surgery.

...Massive obesity, gastroplasty, banding, gastric bypasses, laparoscopic equipment,
BPD, duodenal switch, gastric pacing, balloons, malnutrition, psychology and eating disorders, legal issues, thromboembolism, aftercare, patient selection.

Editorial Board

Co-Editors-in-Chief

Henry Buchwald, MD, PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Nicola Scopinaro, MD, FACS (Hon), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Editorial Office:

Deana Rodriguez, Managing Editor
5437 Fairbrook Street
Long Beach, CA 90815, USA
Phone: +1 (562) 961-9928
Fax: +1 (562) 961-9929
Email: obsu.rodriguez@gmail.com

Associate Editors

Aniceto Baltasar, MD, Virgen de los Lirios Hospital, Alcoy, Alicante, Spain
J. Kenneth Champion, MD, Northside Hospital, Atlanta, GA, USA
Jérôme Dargent, MD, Polyclinique de Rillieux, Lyon, France
John Dixon, MBBS, PhD, Monash University and Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Mal A.L. Fobi, MD, CSTO/St. Mary Medical Center, Long Beach, CA, USA
Martin Fried, MD, PhD, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Arthur B. Garrido, Jr., MD, PhD, University of São Paulo School of Medicine and Instituto Garrido, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Jan W. M. Greve, MD, PhD, Atrium Medical Center Parkstad Heerlen, Heerlen, The Netherlands
Daniel M. Herron, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Kenneth B. Jones, Jr., MD, Christus Schumpert Health Systems,Shreveport, LA, USA
Isao Kawamura, MD, PhD, Kamagaya General Hospital, Tochigi, Japan
Ronette L. Kolotkin, PhD, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Louis F. Martin, MD, Samaritan Healthcare, Moses Lake, WA, USA
Edward E. Mason, MD, PhD, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA
John Melissas, MD, PhD, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Karl A. Miller, MD, A.O. Krankenhaus Hallein, Salzburg, Austria
Ninh T. Nguyen, MD, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA, USA
Paul O'Brien, MD, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Walter J. Pories, MD, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
Scott A. Shikora, MD, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

Editorial Board

Subhi Abu-Abeid, MD, Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Gianfranco Adami, MD, Universita di Genova, Genoa, Italy
J. Wesley Alexander, MD, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Theodore Alexandrides, MD, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Achaia, Greece
John Alverdy, MD, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
Luigi Angrisani, MD, "S. Giovanni Bosco" Hospital, Naples, Italy
Marco Anselmino, MD, Azienda Ospedaliera-University Pisana, Pisa, Italy
Arnaud Basdevant, MD, Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
Donald P. Bernstein, MD, Palomar Medical Center, Escondido, CA, USA
Jay B. Brodsky, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Robert Brolin, MD, University Medical Center at Princeton, Princeton, NJ, USA
Cynthia Buffington, PhD, Florida Hospital Celebration Health, Celebration, FL, USA
Luca Busetto, MD, PhD, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Guy-Bernard Cadiere, MD, PhD, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Marco Castagneto, MD, Catholic University School of Medicine, Rome, Italy
Victoria Catalan, PhD, Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Jean-Marc Chevallier, MD, PhD, Hopital Européan Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Pradeep Chowbey, MS, FACS, AFMS, Ayushman Endosurgery, New Delhi, India
Nicolas V. Christou, MD, PhD, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Daniel Cottam, MD, Surgical Weight Loss Center of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Felipe de la Cruz-Vigo, MD, PhD, Complutense University Medical School, Madrid, Spain
Attila Csendes, FACS, Clinical Hospital University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Massimo Cuzzolaro, MD, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Riccardo Dalle Grave, MD, Villa Garda Hospital, Garda (VR), Italy
Anthony N. Fabricatore, PhD, University of Pennsylvania School ofMedicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Joel Faintuch, MD, PhD, Hospital das Clinicas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Barry Fisher, MD, Las Cruces Weight Loss Clinic, Las Cruces, NM, USA
Louis Flancbaum, MD, Teaneck, NJ, USA
Armour Forse, MD, PhD, Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Eldo Ermenegildo Frezza, MD, MBA, Valley Baptist Medical Center, Harlingen, TX, USA
Kelli Friedman, PhD, Duke Center for Metabolic and Weight Loss Surgery, Durham, NC, USA
Gema Frühbeck, MD, PhD, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Michel Gagner, FACS, Florida International University, Miami Beach, FL, USA
Khaled Gawdat, MD, PhD, Ain-Shams School of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt
Bruno Geloneze, MD, PhD, University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
John Gleysteen, MD, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA
Carlos Grilo, PhD, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Andrew Gumbs, MD, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Sven Gustavsson, MD, PhD, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
Giselle G. Hamad, MD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Jitka Herlesova, PhDr, OB Clinic, Prague, Czech Republic
Miguel F. Herrera, MD, PhD, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición, Mexico City, Mexico
Kelvin D. Higa, MD, UCSF and Fresno Heart and Surgical Hospital, Fresno, CA, USA
Jacques Himpens, MD, St. Pierre University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
Kelvin D. Higa, MD, UCSF and Fresno Heart and Surgical Hospital, Fresno, CA, USA
Jacques Himpens, MD, St. Pierre University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
Fritz F. Horber, MD, Klinik Lindberg and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Sergio Huerta, MD, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA
Sayeed Ikramuddin, MD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
William B. Inabnet III, MD, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
Stephanie B. Jones, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Fotis Kalfarentzos, MD, University Hospital, Patras, Greece
W. Konrad Karcz, MD, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Johann Kinzl, MD, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Konstantinos M. Konstantidis, MD, PhD, Athens Medical Center, Athens, Greece
Antonio Lacy, MD, PhD, Esther Koplowitz Foundation, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
Wei-Jei Lee, MD, PhD, Min-Shen General Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Hendrikus J. M. Lemmens, MD, PhD, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, USA
Luc Lemmens, MD, AZ Niklaas, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Hans Lönroth, MD, PhD, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Götesborg, Sweden
Atul K. Madan, MD, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
David Mahony, PhD, Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Giuseppe Marinari, MD, Azienda Ospedaliera University San Martino, Genoa, Italy
Samer Mattar, MBBCh, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Geltrude Mingrone, MD, PhD, Universita Cattolica S. Cuore, Rome, Italy
Reinhard Mittermair, MD, Arzt für Allgemeinmedizin, Innsbruck, Austria
Melodie Moorehead, PhD, JFK Medical Center, Bariatric Wellness and Surgical Institute, Atlantis, FL, USA
John Morton, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Jean Mouiel, MD, University of Nice, Nice, France
Daniel Munoz, PhD, Pacific University School of Professional Psychology, Portland, OR, USA
Monica Nannipieri, MD, PhD, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Horacio E. Oria, MD, Spring Branch Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA
Robert W. O'Rourke, MD, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Spiros T. Papavramidis, MD, PhD, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Julia Peinado-Onsurbe, PhD, University of Barcelona, Barcelona,Spain
Ralph Peterli, MD, Claraspital, Basel, Switzerland
Alfons Pomp, MD, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
Christine J. Ren Fielding, MD, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Ulrich M. Rieger, MD, InnsbruckMedical University, Innsbruck, Austria
Raul J. Rosenthal, MD, Cleveland Clinic, Weston, FL, USA
Alan Saber, MD, Case Western Reserve University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH, USA
James A. Sapala, MD, Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
David Sarwer, PhD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Elisabete Cristina Shiraga, Esq, Hospital dos Fornecedores de Cana de Piracicaba, Piracicaba, Brazil
Rudolf Steffen, MD, Beausite Clinic, Berne, Switzerland
Christine Stroh, MD, Municipal Hospital SRH Wald-Klinikum, Gera,Germany
Richard S. Stubbs, MBChB, MD, Wakefield Clinic and University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand
Harvey J. Sugerman, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
Michel Suter, MD, Hôpital du Chablais Aigle-Monthey, Chablais, Switzerland
Mustafa Taskin, MD, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
Antonio Jose Torres, MD, PhD, Complutense University of Madrid,Madrid, Spain
Tess van der Merwe, MBChB(UP), PhD, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Rudolf A. Weiner, MD, PhD, Hospital Sachsenhausenj, Frankfurt, Germany
Juergen Michael Weiss, MD, University of Jena, Jena, Germany
Alan C. Wittgrove, MD, Wittgrove Bariatric Center, San Diego, CA, USA
Anna Maria Wolf, MD, Universitätsklinikum Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Bruce M. Wolfe, MD, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Yury Yashkov, MD, PhD, The Center of Endosurgery & Lithotripsy, Moscow, Russia
Jeanne-Marie Zimmerman, MD, Clinique de Clairval, Marseilles, France

IFSO Representative 

Harry B. Frydenberg, MD, Epworth Centre for Bariatric Surgery, Victoria, Australia

Editor-in-Chief Emeritus and Founding Editor

Mervyn Deitel, MD, Toronto, ON, Canada

Co-Editor-in-Chief Emeritus and Founding Editor

George S.M. Cowan, Jr., MD, Memphis, TN, USA