Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 – Omentectomy As a Procedure for the Co-Morbidities of Obesity (pp. 1-30)
Aaron Magnuson, Andrea Booth and Michelle Foster (Colorado State University, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Fort Collins, CO)

Chapter 2 – Bariatric Surgery: Indications and Complications (pp. 31-52)
Dina M. Filiberto and Aziz M. Merchant (Rutgers–New Jersey Medical School, Department of Surgery)

Chapter 3 – Atrial Fibrillation after Surgery (pp. 53-76)
Di Ai and Juan P. Cata (Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, The University of Texas -MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, US)

Chapter 4 – Perioperative Period, Stress Response, Immune Suppression and Cancer Recurrence (pp. 77-100)
M. F. Ramirez, P. Tran and Juan P. Cata (Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, The University of Texas-MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, US)

Chapter 5 – Perioperative Blood Transfusions and Its Complications (pp. 101-118)
Hao Wang and Juan P. Cata (Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, US)

Chapter 6 – Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: Pathophysiological and Therapeutic Considerations (pp. 119-142)
Evgenios Evgeniou, Panagiotis A. Dimitriadis, Petros V. Vlastarakos, Ashley Walden and Rishi Sharma (General Surgery Department, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, UK, and others)

Chapter 7 – Hydatid Liver Cyst (pp. 143-156)
Jitendra Kumar Kushwaha, Abhinav Arun Sonkar, Kulranjan Singh, Akshay Anand and Rajni Gupta (King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, India)

Index 157