Journal of Thyroid Disorders & Therapy
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Ahmed Elnabil

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• Thesis
  Effect of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy on Clinical Hypothyroidism in Morbidly Obese Patients
  Author(s): Ahmed Elnabil, Ossama Ashraf Ahmed and Bassem Murad Mostafa Ahmed Elnabil, Ossama Ashraf Ahmed and Bassem Murad Mostafa
  
  Background: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) has an increase in popularity as a definitive bariatric operation. The purpose of this study was to evaluate excess weight loss (EWL) and the change in thyroxin (T4) requirement in morbidly obese patients with clinical hypothyroidism after LSG. Methods: Between June 2012 and June 2015, 33 morbidly obese patients candidate for laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy were enrolled in a prospective comparative study at Ain Shams University Hospitals, Egypt, and Muhayl National Hospital, Saudi Arabia. The patients were assigned to either Group A (13 patients) with clinical hypothyroidism on thyroxin treatment or Group B (20 patients) with euthyroid as control group. We compared postoperative EWL between two groups and preoperative and postoperative thyroxin requirements in Group A at one-year follow up... View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-7948.1000217

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