Anatomy of standard surgical procedures -- Recommended supplementation -- Vitamins and minerals -- Postoperative dynamics of comorbidities -- Nutritive complications and their specific clinical pictures -- Cholecystolithiasis after bypass procedures -- Dumping syndrome -- Bone metabolism -- Pregnancy -- Possible late complications.

Practice book on long-term outpatient care of bariatric surgery patients. With increasing numbers of patients following bariatric surgery, specific knowledge, regarding medical and therapeutic consequences, is required in all practicing specialties. General practitioners and family physicians play a key role in lifelong follow-up. This requires expertise not only in the surgical procedures themselves, but especially in the metabolic processes that are altered by surgery. The high postoperative diabetes remission rates also require a focused view. This book aims to contribute to a practical transfer of indispensable knowledge related to long-term care after bariatric and metabolic surgery. From the contents Basics of surgical procedures Postoperative complication management Malabsorption, possible deficiency symptoms, bone metabolism, supplementation Drug absorption and interactions Endocrinologic management of patients of childbearing potential A practical guide for practicing physicians of all specialties caring for patients after bariatric and metabolic surgery. The editors Christine Stier, MD, and Sonja Chiappetta, MD, are internationally recognized and scientifically renowned bariatric surgeons. They have worked and researched together in Frankfurt and Offenbach at the first German Center of Excellence for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery under the direction of Prof. Rudolf Weiner (Germany). Today, they both head their own excellence-certified departments - Dr. Stier in the Rhineland (Germany) and Dr. Chiappetta in Naples (Italy).