What are the most updated indications for bariatric surgery?

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What is the incidence of hypercalcinosis and oxalate nephropathy after bariatric surgery?

I am wondering if we have reported occurrence rate of hypercalcinosis and oxalate nephropathy in patients after any bariatric surgery? The rates of kidney stones after bariatric surgery now have...

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Why do HIV patients carry higher risk of allograft rejections in Kidney transplantation? Any suggested biological evidence, or reasoning explained by immunology or animal models? Thank you

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Can we treat IgG4 related systemic disease unresponsive to steroids with Rituximab? How successful? Any suggested evidence? Thank you!

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Can rituximab reduce the risk of chronic antibody mediated rejection after kidney transplantation?

How strong is the evidence in both sensitized and non-sensitized patients? I am really hoping to find the better way to reduce transplant glomerulopathy to improve allograft survival?

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Paul K Hamilton

See NICE guideline here:

http://pathways.nice.org.uk/pathways/obesity#path=view%3A/pathways/obesity/surgery-for-obese-adults.xml&content=view-node%3Anodes-when-to-offer-surgery

Wisit Cheungpasitporn

Thank you very much, Dr. Hamilton!

Wisit

Emmanuelle Cugy

There is a part of French recommandations (file), published in 2009.

There are some recent data that suggest that bariatric surgery could be a great treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25859263

Thank you very much Dr.Cugy! I really appreciated it!

Ana Paula dos Santos Rodrigues

I suggest this clinical guidelines published by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, The Obesity Society, and American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery.

Thank you, Dr. Ana Paula dos Santos Rodrigues for the suggestion!