Gastric Bypass Prior to Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation for Optimization of Diabetic Management

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Jay A. Graham Juan P. Rocca Julia Torabi Nidal Muhdi Yoshifumi Miura

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Jay A. Graham
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx NY

A B S T R A C T

Morbid obesity is a relative contraindication for abdominal organ transplantation. Obese patients present technical challenges intra-operatively and are at increased risk of post-operative complications. Bariatric surgery has been shown to be more effective than conventional weight loss strategies in morbidly obese patients, however, current literature is limited to the kidney transplant population. Here were present a case report of a patient with morbid obesity who underwent a laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass prior to simultaneous pancreas kidney transplantation.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Mon 23, Dec 2019
Accepted: Tue 28, Jan 2020
Published: Mon 03, Feb 2020

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© 2023 Jay A. Graham . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.JSCR.2020.01.04