Indications for Surgery for Obesity and Weight-Related Diseases: Position Statements from the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO)

Affiliations

• ¹ Director Department of Surgery, Montebelluna Treviso Hospital, Montebelluna, Treviso, Italy. nnwdel@tin.it.
• ² University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy.
• ³ The European School of Laparoscopic Surgery, Brussels, Belgium.
• ⁴ University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
• ⁵ Univerity of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
• ⁶ Sana Klinikum Offenbach, Offenbach, Germany.
• ⁷ Director Department of Surgery, Montebelluna Treviso Hospital, Montebelluna, Treviso, Italy.
• ⁸ CODS, Saifee, Hospital, Mumbay, India.
• ⁹ Univerity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
• ¹⁰ Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
• ¹¹ Gynecologyc and Obstretics Clinic, Marienhospital, Bottrop, Germany.
• ¹² Clinica Universitaria de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
• ¹³ Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ¹⁴ University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ¹⁵ Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
• ¹⁶ Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
• ¹⁷ Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹⁸ Obesity Research Management, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
• ¹⁹ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA.