Bariatric surgery among patients with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Sebastian BergerPascal MeyreSteffen BlumStefanie AeschbacherMarco RueggMatthias BrielDavid ConenPublished in: Open heart (2018)
In this systematic review, no randomised trial assessed the benefits and risks of bariatric surgery in obese patients with concomitant HF. Available studies do, however, show that surgery might prevent incident HF.
Keyphrases
- bariatric surgery
- obese patients
- systematic review
- weight loss
- gastric bypass
- roux en y gastric bypass
- minimally invasive
- meta analyses
- acute heart failure
- coronary artery bypass
- cardiovascular disease
- study protocol
- human health
- open label
- heart failure
- randomized controlled trial
- surgical site infection
- climate change
- acute coronary syndrome