What is it about?
This article attempts to answer the question of whether a gastroscopy is needed before undergoing sleeve gastrectomy for morbid obesity
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Why is it important?
Gastroscopy could be unnecessary in individuals undergoing sleeve gastrectomy, thus saving money and avoiding the hassles of endoscopy.
Perspectives
More work and larger studies are needed to confirm the utility of gastroscopy before undergoing sleeve gastrectomy
Khaled Jadallah
Jordan University of Science and Technology
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This page is a summary of: Preoperative esophagogastroduodenoscopy in patients without reflux symptoms undergoing laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: utility or futility?, Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology, July 2019, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/ceg.s216188.
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