Introduction: It has been published that patients who underwent gastric bypass surgery have impaired alcohol metabolism, predisposing them to higher rates of intoxication and DUI arrests. Yet the impact of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) on alcohol metabolism and in particular the long-term effects are still unclear. We hypothesized that LSG does not alter alcohol metabolism.
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When 40 subjects had 134 ml of blood drawn, 8 of them developed hypotension. These 8 subjects were younger, and when they stood they decreased their systemic arterial pressure, pulse rate and plasma norepinephrine. In contrast, normal subjects increased all these parameters after standing.
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