Obesity surgery and COVID-19 pandemic: What is the suitable attitude to adopt?

J Visc Surg. 2021 Feb;158(1):1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2020.12.002. Epub 2020 Dec 5.

¹ Department of Digestive and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Privé Saint Grégoire, Saint-Grégoire, France.
² Department of Digestive and Bariatric Surgery, Centre Lyonnais de Chirurgie Digestive, CSO Sauvegarde, Lyon, France.
³ Department of hepato-bilio-pancreatic digestive surgery and liver transplantation, University Hospital Pitié Salpêtrière, Sorbonne université, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
⁴ Department of gastric and bariatric digestive surgery, Bichat Claude-Bernard Hospital, Paris, France; Université de Paris, Inserm UMR 1149, 75018 Paris, France.
⁵ Department of Digestive and Bariatric Surgery, Felix Guyon Hospital, CHU de la Réunion, La Réunion, France.
⁶ General and Endocrine Surgery Department, CHU de Lille, Lille, France; Inserm, Université de Lille, CHU de Lille, Lille Pasteur Institute, EGID, U1190, Lille, France.
⁷ Department of gastric and bariatric digestive surgery, Bichat Claude-Bernard Hospital, Paris, France; Université de Paris, Inserm UMR 1149, 75018 Paris, France. Electronic address: [email protected].

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Keywords: Bariatric surgery; COVID-19; Guidelines; Obesity; Pandemic.

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