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. 2025 Jan;39(1):180-183.
doi: 10.1007/s00464-024-11263-2. Epub 2024 Oct 29.

Multi-society clinical practice guidance for the safe use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in the perioperative period

Tammy L Kindel  1 , Andrew Y Wang  2 , Anupama Wadhwa  3   4 , Allison R Schulman  5 , Reem Z Sharaiha  6 , Matthew Kroh  7 , Omar M Ghanem  8 , Shauna Levy  9 , Girish P Joshi  3 , Teresa LaMasters  10 ; Representing the American Gastroenterological Association, American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, American Society of Anesthesiologists, International Society of Perioperative Care of Patients with Obesity, and the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
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Multi-society clinical practice guidance for the safe use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in the perioperative period

Tammy L Kindel et al. Surg Endosc. 2025 Jan.
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Conflict of interest statement

Declarations. Disclosures: Tammy Kindel and Anupama Wadhwa have no disclosures. Girish Joshi has received honoraria for consultation from Merck Sharpe and Dohme Inc. and Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Teresa LaMasters has received honoraria for consulting and speaking from WL Gore, Intuitive Surgical, Novo Nordisk, and Ethicon Endosurgical. Shauna Levy is a consultant for Novo Nordisk. Omar Ghanem is a consultant for Medtronic and Olympus. Allison Schulman is a consultant for Apollo Endosurgery, Boston Scientific, Olympus, MicroTech, Fractyl, and has received research/grant support from GI Dynamics and Fractyl. Andrew Wang discloses owning publicly traded stock in GE HealthCare Technologies and Pfizer. Reem Sharaiha is a consultant for Boston Scientific, Intuitive Surgical, and Olympus. Matthew Kroh is a consultant for Intuitive Surgical, Levita, and Momentis, and on the advisory board for Endolumik, Kintsugi, Medtronic and FastPathway.

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