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ea0034p114 | Clinical practice/governance and case reports | SFEBES2014

Baseline assessment of patients referred for ‘metabolic surgery’: managing the myriad of metabolic abnormalities

Imran Hafsa , Varughese George , Cheruvu Chandra , Nayak Ananth , Cooper Emily , Varadhan Lakshminarayanan

Aim: Nutritional abnormalities are common after bariatric surgery and it is vitally important to assess and replace them pre-operatively to ease management post-operatively. The aim of our study was to assess the prevalence of various metabolic abnormalities at first visit to a tertiary combined bariatric endocrine clinic.Methods: Data was collected on 200 patients referred for consideration of bariatric surgery. Being a retrospective analysis and theref...