Case Report
Liver Cirrhosis Improvement by Weight Loss Prior Bariatric Surgery
Spieker H1*, Sändig I2, Wittekind C2, Blueher M3 and Dietrich A11Department of Visceral, Transplantation, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Leipzig, Germany
2Department of Pathology, University Hospital Leipzig, Germany
3Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Leipzig, Germany
- *Corresponding Author:
- Henning Spieker, M.D
Department of Visceral, Transplantation
Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Leipzig
Liebigstr. 20, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Tel: 0049-341-9717200
Fax: 0049-341-9717209 E-mail: henning.spieker@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
Received date: July 26, 2016; Accepted date: August 26, 2016; Published date: February 07, 2017
Citation: Spieker H, Sändig I, Wittekind C, Blueher M, Dietrich A (2017) Liver Cirrhosis Improvement by Weight Loss Prior Bariatric Surgery. J Obes Weight Loss Ther 7:334. doi: 10.4172/2165-7904.1000334
Copyright: © 2017 Spieker H, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) as a phenotype of metabolic syndrome can lead to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and liver cirrhosis. Bariatric surgery in patients with liver cirrhosis can be related to possible bleeding complications due to resultant hypocoagulability. Therefore lifestyle-changing programmes are necessary in order to improve liver function until (bariatric) surgery is performed.
