NCT01748682

Very Low Calorie Liquid Diet for Pre op Patients

Use of Very Low Calorie Liquid Diet in the Preoperative Phase of Bariatric Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 104 (actual)
• Sponsor: Silvia Leite Faria · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Despite the relative consensus on the benefits of pre-surgical weight loss, i.e., the reduction of comorbidities associated with surgical act, such as decreased visceral fat, liver volume, hemorrhage perioperative and surgical time, the characteristics of the diet to be employed in this period need to be defined more clearly. As there is no description of comparative studies on diet of normal consistency, using solids and liquids, there are doubts as to the real need for consistency liquid diet in preoperative bariatric surgery. The lack of robust evidence has made nutrition professionals adopt different procedures. There is still a belief that these patients are unable to lose weight in the preoperative period, the ongoing history of previous attempts without success.

Conditions

• Morbid Obesity
• Steatosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	A very low calorie diet of two different consistencies	Liquid and normal consistency diet with a very low calorie diet will be given to patients pre-operatively in bariatric surgery

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-01-01
• Primary completion: 2012-09-01
• Completion: 2012-09-01
• First posted: 2012-12-12
• Last updated: 2012-12-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil