Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: The long-term outcome of bariatric surgery on renal function in the morbidly obese renal transplant recipient is still unknown. We describe three cases of morbidly obese renal transplant recipients who have subsequently undergone bariatric surgery.Patient 1: A 44-year-old man (BMI 42.2 kg/m2) had received a renal transplant for chronic renal disease secondary to childhood reflux nephropathy. Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass re...

Objectives: The long-term outcome of bariatric surgery on renal function in the morbidly obese renal transplant recipient is still unknown. We describe three cases of morbidly obese renal transplant recipients who have subsequently undergone bariatric surgery.Patient 1: A 44-year-old man (BMI 42.2 kg/m2) had received a renal transplant for chronic renal disease secondary to childhood reflux nephropathy. Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass re...