Impact of Sleeve Gastrectomy on Brain Structural Integrity.

Emma GangemiClaudia PiervincenziCarlo Augusto MallioGiuseppe SpagnoloNikolaos PetsasIda Francesca GalloAntonella SistoLivia QuintilianiVincenzo BruniCarlo Cosimo Quattrocchi

Published in: Obesity surgery (2024)

The present results gain a new understanding of the neural mechanisms of outcome in patients who undergo SG. We found limited GMV changes and extensive WM microstructural differences between PwO who achieved over or less than 50% EWL after SG, which may be due to higher vulnerability of WM to the metabolic dysfunction present in PwO.

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