title: Bariatric Surgery in Youth.
abstract: Bariatric surgery provides a clinically effective and cost-effective means of achieving sustained weight reduction and management of associated comorbidities and has been met with increasing enthusiasm for application in obese youth. Following trends seen among obese adults, carefully selected obese youth are now undergoing bariatric surgical procedures with excellent short-term and intermediate-term outcomes. Although long-term data are not yet available, the results thus far hold great promise in the management of this population.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Mount Sinai Hospital, 5 East 98th Street, 10th Floor, Box 1259, New York, NY 10029-6574, USA. Electronic address: TAMAR.MIRENSKY@MOUNTSINAI.ORG.
authors.forename: Tamar L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Mirensky
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D050110:Bariatric Surgery; D015897:Comorbidity; D006801:Humans; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000601:surgery*; D063766:Pediatric Obesity / Q000601:surgery*
keywords: Adolescent obesity; Bariatric surgery; Childhood obesity; Gastric bypass; Obesity; Sleeve gastrectomy