Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy for class III obesity in a patient with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) Heartmate III

Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2019 Aug;15(8):1420-1421. doi: 10.1016/j.soard.2019.05.008. Epub 2019 May 14.

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery , Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Switzerland. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Cardiovascular Surgery , Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Switzerland; Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne University, UNIL, Switzerland.
³ Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne University, UNIL, Switzerland; Department of Cardiology, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Cardiology, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Switzerland.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Switzerland.
⁶ Adult Intensive Care Unit, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Switzerland.
⁷ Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne University, UNIL, Switzerland; Department of Visceral Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Switzerland.

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Keywords: Bariatric surgery; Heart failure; LVAD; Morbid obesity; Sleeve gastrectomy.

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