By Nikki Kean
Washington—Patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and cirrhosis can benefit from bariatric surgery using vertical sleeve gastrectomy, according to results presented at the 2018 Digestive Disease Week.
“This is the first large-scale study to show that bariatric surgery is not associated with increased mortality in patients with compensated cirrhosis as compared to noncirrhotics,” said senior investigator Khalid Mumtaz, MD.
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