Morbid Obesity in Adolescents Conservative Treatment and Surgical Approaches /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Widhalm, Kurt (Editor), Prager, Gerhard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Metabolic diseases.; Clinical nutrition.; Pediatrics.; Surgery.; Pediatric surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; General Surgery.; Pediatric Surgery.; Clinical Nutrition.; Metabolic Diseases.

As the worldwide prevalence of morbid obesity among adolescents continues to rise, recent years have seen a large increase in the performance of adolescent bariatric surgery. While surgical intervention often becomes necessary when conservative weight-loss therapies have failed, no standards regardi...

Table of Contents:

• Paediatric Body Composition Measurement Techniques in Morbidly Obese Patients
• Insulin Resistance in the Morbidly Obese Adolescent
• Inflammation as a Trigger for Insulin Resistance and Cardiometabolic Disease
• Inpatient Lifestyle Interventions to Treat Childhood Obesity
• Conservative Treatment for Morbidly Obese Adolescents: The German Experience
• Comorbidities: Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver in Childhood Obesity
• Measurement of Atherosclerosis in Morbidly Obese Adolescents
• Arthritis and Joint Problems in Morbidly Obese Adolescents
• Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents: Practical Guidelines from a Pediatrician’s Point of View
• Vitamin Deficiencies After Bariatric Surgery?
• Laparoscopic Gastric Banding
• Metabolic Surgery in Adolescents
• Situation in Sweden
• Experiences from Adolescents at the Viennese Center for Bariatric Surgery
• Is There an Indication for BPD-DS/BPD? What the Potential Advantages/Disadvantages to RYNGB?
• Psychological, Nutritional and Sports-Scientific Aspects of Obesity in Adolescence
• Current Guidelines of Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents
• Cardiovascular Risk in Childhood Obesity.