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Michael M. Meguid, MD, PhD; Imtiaz A. Munshi, MD

Arch Surg. 2005;140:1203.

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Nguyen et al¹ have brought to light informative data concerning the recent progress made in marshaling our surgical workforce resources to meet the tsunami of morbid obesity, which is at the leading edge of morbidity and mortality in the national obesity epidemic. Surgical intervention has proved to be the most effective method in achieving prolonged weight loss and reversing metabolic comorbidities in morbidly obese patients. This can be effectively done using either open or minimally invasive surgical techniques.² The evolution of minimally invasive or laparoscopic surgical techniques for bariatric surgery has created a tremendous surge in enthusiasm among patients, primary care physicians, and surgeons. Bariatric surgery is no longer shunned as it once was in the 1970s and 1980s. The resurgence in and acceptance of the surgical treatment of morbid obesity were led by the evolution of a better bariatric operation: . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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