The evaluation of short- and mid-term effects of sleeve gastrectomy on left ventricular function in obesity: a prospective CMR study

This study investigate left ventricular function of obese patients with no known heart disease who underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) in their short- and mid-term postoperative follow-up. We found that obese patients who underwent LSG had a significant decrease in body weight, left ventricular mass and left ventricular cavity in the short- and mid- term postoperative. In the mid-term postoperative, the left ventricular subclinical systolic dysfunction of left ventricle significantly improved.