Quantification of Liver, Subcutaneous, and Visceral Adipose Tissues by MRI Before and After Bariatric Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Morbid obesity is a worldwide epidemic and is increasingly treated by bariatric surgery. Fatty liver is a common finding; almost half of all patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis develop steatohepatitis. Bariatric surgery improves steatohepatitis documented by liver biopsy and single voxel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques.

Objective

To investigate changes before and after bariatric surgery using whole organ MRI quantification of liver, visceral, and subcutaneous fat.

Setting

University of Basel Hospital and St. Clara Research Ltd, Basel, Switzerland.

Methods

Sixteen morbidly obese patients were evaluated by abdominal MRI-scanning before and 3, 6, 12, and 24 months after bariatric surgery to measure percentage liver fat (%-LF), total

SUBMITTER: Meyer-Gerspach AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6713693 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature