Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Visceral Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. moritz.felsenreich@meduniwien.ac.at.
• ² Departamento de Cirurgia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Brazil.
• ³ Department of Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Division of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
• ⁴ Alexandria University Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria, Egypt.
• ⁵ Department of Upper GI Surgery, University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
• ⁶ General Surgery Department, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
• ⁷ Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ⁸ Metabolic and Endocrine Unit, General and Digestive Surgery Department, Fuenlabrada University Hospital, Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain.
• ⁹ Department of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
• ¹⁰ Department of Surgery, Assistant Professor, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA.
• ¹¹ Department of General Surgery, Center of Excellence Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, Ospedale Evangelico Betania, Naples, Italy.