Wiley-Blackwell
Extreme BMI cause for concern in liver transplantation
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, August 17th, 2009
A recent study by doctors at the University of Washington explained that patients who are significantly underweight or very severely obese prior to liver transplantation are at increased risk of death following transplantation surgery. These findings, from the largest known observation of liver transplantation at the extremes of BMI, are published in the August issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
The research team led by Andre A. S. Dick, M.D., Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Washington investigated the impact of...
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