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Hypoxemia and hypoventilation syndrome improvement after laparoscopic bariatric surgery in patients with morbid obesity.

Franco Lumachi, Bernardo Marzano, Giovanni Fanti, S.M.M. Basso, Francesco Mazza, Giordano Chiara

PubMed · 2010 · 32 citations · 14 references

Abstract

In patients with extremely severe obesity, bariatric surgery may improve significantly both SpO(2) and spirometric parameters, and EWL represents the factor that impacted the results.

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