Weight gain and obesity after liver transplantation

Overweight, obesity and weight gain up to three years after liver transplantation.

INTRODUCTION Previous studies have shown that weight gain commonly occurs after liver transplantation (LTx). Few risk factors have been studied. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to assess the weight changes and incidence excessive weight up to 3 years after surgery. METHODS Post-LTx patients were assessed for their weight changes and incidence of excessive weight before liver disease; o...

Weight Gain After Fecal Microbiota Transplantation

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a promising treatment for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. We report a case of a woman successfully treated with FMT who developed new-onset obesity after receiving stool from a healthy but overweight donor. This case may stimulate further studies on the mechanisms of the nutritional-neural-microbiota axis and reports of outcomes in patients w...

Excessive Weight Gain and Obesity in Australian Liver Transplant Patients

Patients with Persistent New-Onset Diabetes after Transplantation Have Greater Weight Gain after Kidney Transplantation

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the difference in BMI pattern between patients with persistent new-onset diabetes after transplantation (P-NODAT) and without new-onset diabetes after transplantation (N-NODAT) in a retrospective matched case-control (1:3) analysis. Thirty-six patients who developed P-NODAT were identified among 186 adult renal transplant recipients with no evide...

Weight Gain, Obesity, and Psychotropic Prescribing

A majority of psychiatric medications are known to generate weight gain and ultimately obesity in some patients. There is much speculation about the prevalence of weight gain and the degree of weight gain during acute and longitudinal treatment with these agents. There is newer literature looking at the etiology of this weight gain and the potential treatments being used to alleviate this side ...