title: Bariatric Surgery in University Clinic Center Tuzla - Results After 30 Operations.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Project of Bariatric surgery in University clinic center (UCC) Tuzla has been initiated in 2009 as an idea of professor Dešo Mešić and soon after that Bariatric surgical team led by doctor Fuad Pasic has been created.
  
  
  METHODS
  Practical team education was realized in Croatia in hospital "Sisters of Mercy" under supervision of professor Miroslav-Bekavac Beslin. First bariatric operations in UCC Tuzla has been done in 2011 and it was biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) Scopinaro.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  So far there has been done 30 operations and among them there have been used almost all operative modalities - restrictive, malabsorptive and combined (laparoscopic gastric banding-LAPGB, Roux-y mini gastric bypass, open and laparoscopic gastric sleeve resection, and over mentioned Scopinaro's BPD). Beginning results are very promising according to the fact that almost all operated patients after one year stopped using antihypertensive, antidiabetic and antidepressant therapy, that average year's weight loss is 35-100 kilograms and total satisfactions of patients after surgeries is obvious.
authors.affiliation: Clinic for surgery of University clinic Centre Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
authors.forename: Emir
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ahmetasevic
authors.affiliation: Clinic for surgery of University clinic Centre Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
authors.forename: Fuad
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pasic
authors.affiliation: Clinic for surgery of hospital "Sisters of mercy" Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: Miroslav Bekavac
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Beslin
authors.affiliation: Clinic for surgery of hospital "Sisters of mercy" Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: Miroslav
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ilic
authors.affiliation: Clinic for anesthesiology and reanimation of University clinic Centre Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
authors.forename: Dzenita
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ahmetasevic
authors.affiliation: Clinic for surgery of University clinic Centre Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
authors.forename: Mirza
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mesic
keywords: Roux-y mini gastric bypass; bariatric surgery; laparoscopic gastric banding-LAPGB; open and laparoscopic gastric sleeve resection; over mentioned Scopinaro’s BPD