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Home / Publications / Pain Research Forum / Papers of the Week / Preoperative Opioid Prescription Patients Do Not Suffer Distinct Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery: a Matched Analysis of Outcomes.

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2020 Jun 17


Obes Surg


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32557387?dopt=Abstract

Preoperative Opioid Prescription Patients Do Not Suffer Distinct Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery: a Matched Analysis of Outcomes.

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Preoperative Opioid Prescription Patients Do Not Suffer Distinct Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery: a Matched Analysis of Outcomes.
Shockcor N, Adnan SM, Siegel A, Tannouri S, Rasko Y, Kligman M
Obes Surg. 2020 Jun 17.
PMID: 32557387.

Abstract

While over 200 million opioid prescriptions are written annually for chronic pain in the USA, little has been written on the impact of opioids on bariatric surgery, specifically on the effects of prescription opioid use on weight loss post laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) and laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG).
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