Lactulose Breath Testing Can Be a Positive Predictor Before Weight Gain in Participants with Obesity Submitted to Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
Luciano Kowalski CoelhoNayara Salgado CarvalhoTomas Navarro-RodriguezFernando Augusto Lima MarsonPaulo Jose Pereira Campos CarvalhoPublished in: Obesity surgery (2020)
Our data point to a high prevalence of SIBO (38.8%) in patients undergoing BGYR with a value in accordance with the literature. Moreover, the differences in BMI between negative and positive groups by H2BT with lactulose evidenced a weight gain relapse in participants with SIBO.