Pizzicannella, Margherita http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8953-9226
Lapergola, Alfonso
Fiorillo, Claudio
Spota, Andrea
Mascagni, Pietro
Vix, Michel
Mutter, Didier
Costamagna, Guido
Marescaux, Jacques
Swanström, Lee
Perretta, Silvana
Article History
Received: 4 June 2019
Accepted: 24 December 2019
First Online: 13 January 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Margherita Pizzicannella, Alfonso Lapergola, Andrea Spota, Claudio Fiorillo, Pietro Mascagni, Michel Vix, Didier Mutter, Guido Costamagna, Lee Swanström, Jacques Marescaux, Silvana Perretta have no conflicts of interests or financial ties to disclose.
: This study is a prospective single-center study conducted by the Digestive Surgery Department of the Nouvel Hôpital Civil (NHC) in Strasbourg. After Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval, patients who were candidates for a bariatric procedure according to international guidelines for bariatric surgery were included in the study (protoClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT02948621 and NCT03554902).