Abstract

Obesity is highly prevalent among patients with renal transplants . It is associated with increased risk of overall mortality, obesity-related complications such as diabetes, increased renal graft loss rates and shortened graft survival. Roux en Y gastric bypass in contrast to other non malabsorptive procedures, may affect the pharmacokinetics of certain drugs, which is of particular importance for immunosuppressant drugs required by patients post-transplant to avoid graft rejection.

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