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Escherichia coli Infection Risk Following Sleeve Gastrectomy
2026-02-28
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Abstract* Backgruond Extremely obese patients can benefit greatly from sleeve gastrectomy, a very common and successful therapeutic procedure that is usually carried out via laparoscopy. A SG involves the excision of about eighty percent of the stomach. Beyond the possibility of significant weight loss, there are drawbacks to the SG procedure. A patient's may be susceptible to postoperative infection from gram-neg...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 03cd5b93-922f-5f7e-a597-9c3bebaaffc5
- DOI
- 10.12688/f1000research.172843.1
