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ArticleObesity surgery2020

Bariatric Surgery for Treatment of Hypothalamic Obesity After Craniopharyngioma Therapy: a Matched Case-Control Study.

Ieme Garrez, Bruno Lapauw, Yves Van Nieuwenhove

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Article in Obesity surgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Efficacy and Safety of Bariatric Surgery in Acquired Hypothalamic Obesity: A Systematic Review and Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ieme GarrezFaculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. Ieme.Garrez@UGent.be.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2190-0799
Bruno LapauwDepartment of Endocrinology, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
Yves Van NieuwenhoveDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
Ghent University Hospital · BE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Craniopharyngioma and its treatment lead to weight gain and pituitary hormone deficiencies. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of bariatric surgery for treatment of hypothalamic obesity after craniopharyngioma therapy. Five patients with hypothalamic obesity after craniopharyngioma treatment were included. Patients were treated with sleeve gastrectomy or Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and individually matched to 2 control patients treated for common obesity. At 2 years of follow-up, total and excess weight loss in cases were 14.7% (p = 0.002) and 38.0% (p = 0.001), respectively; differences between both groups were 13.6% (p = 0.02) and 31.6% (p = 0.03). Minor postoperative alterations in hormone substitution in all 5 cases were observed. Thus, bariatric surgery induced significant weight loss in patients with craniopharyngioma-related hypothalamic obesity, even though a superior weight loss in controls was observed.

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Bariatric SurgeryCraniopharyngiomaGastric BypassObesity, MorbidPituitary NeoplasmsCase-Control StudiesGastrectomyHumansObesityTreatment OutcomeBariatric surgeryCraniopharyngiomaHormone substitutionHypothalamic obesityRoux-en-Y gastric bypassSleeve gastrectomy

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