Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 2 , Pages 174-180, August 2009

The negative effect of pretransplant overweight and obesity on the rate of improvement in physical quality of life after liver transplantation

  • Victor Zaydfudim, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Victor Zaydfudim, MD, MPH, Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, D-4314 Medical Center North, Nashville, TN 37232-2730.
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  • Irene D. Feurer, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
    • Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
    • ,
  • Derek E. Moore, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
    • ,
  • Panarut Wisawatapnimit, MSN, PhD

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
    • ,
  • J. Kelly Wright, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
    • ,
  • C. Wright Pinson, MBA, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Accepted 6 April 2009.

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 Supported by the Institutional National Research Service Award T32 HS 013833 from the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and by a general educational award from the Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.

 Presented at the 4th Annual Academic Surgical Congress, Fort Myers, Florida, February 3–5, 2009.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00329-8

doi:10.1016/j.surg.2009.04.027

Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 2 , Pages 174-180, August 2009

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