- Deepens the understanding between gastroenterologists and surgeons
- Documents endoscopic views following bariatric surgery
- Explains the gastroenterologists’s role in preoperative workup
- Describes the endoscopic treatment of complications of bariatric surgery
This book aims to deepen collaboration between gastroenterologists and surgeons by providing endoscopists and gastroenterologists with a clear understanding of the anatomic alterations likely to be observed after bariatric surgery and acquainting bariatric surgeons with the possibilities offered by endoscopic treatment of obesity itself and of the complications associated with bariatric surgery.
The treatment approach in patients with obesity and morbid obesity is usually stepwise, starting with dietary measures, exercise, and behavioral therapy, followed by pharmaceutical therapies, endoscopic bariatric therapy, and, finally, bariatric surgery. Endoscopists and gastroenterologists are involved first because the gastrointestinal tract is affected by obesity-related co-morbidity and second because it provides access for a range of treatment modalities involving endoscopy.
Bariatric surgeons may need the assistance of endoscopists and gastroenterologists in the preoperative work-up of patients, in the perioperative period, when acute complications may require an endoscopic intervention, or in the late follow-up period, when complications or insufficient weight loss may be present. This book will be of value for both groups of specialists, enabling them to optimize their cooperation to the benefit of patients.
Table of Contents- Epidemiology and Comorbidities
- Current Endoscopic/Laparoscopic Bariatric Procedures
- Bariatric Surgery
- Endoscopists and Surgeons Playing in the Same Team: The Multidisciplinary Approach in Screening and Preoperative Workup
- When the Surgeon Needs the Endoscopist in Rescuing Bariatric Surgery: Intraoperative and Early Post-operative Period
- When the Surgeon Needs the Endoscopist in Rescuing Bariatric Surgery: Intermediate and Late Post-operative Period
- Perioperative and Postoperative Guidance of the Bariatric Patient
- When the Endoscopist Needs the Surgeon
- Input of New Ways of Reasoning
- When Surgeons and Endoscopists Should or Could “Act as One” Regardless of Their Conflicts of Interest
- When Surgeons and Endoscopists Are Possible Opponents
