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A Research Career in Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery

Dr. Nestor de la Cruz-Muñoz spent his academic career as a Professor of Surgery at a university-based medical center before retiring from the university to lead his own private practice in Miami. For 10 years he directed a bariatric surgery fellowship program, training 13–14 fellows, and he has contributed to national guidelines in the field.

He has served as Principal Investigator for six bariatric endoscopic FDA pivotal trials and was a Principal Investigator in the Allurion balloon trial. His research includes a large published study of outcomes after adolescent bariatric surgery and many other papers on bariatric surgery in teens, and his research team has published three papers on alcohol after bariatric surgery.

He shares this work through invited lectures, including in Montreal and at ASMBS in 2025. His video on minimally invasive median arcuate ligament (MALS) release was among the first on that procedure in WebSurg, the international surgical video library.

Selected publications appear below. For his complete publication record, see his Google Scholar profile or PubMed.

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Peer Reviewed Article

Predictors of Post-Operative Aftercare Attrition Among Gastric Bypass Patients

Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care

1/6/2015

Zhamak Khorgami, Chi Zhang, Sarah E. Messiah, Nestor de la Cruz-Muñoz

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Ethnic and Gender Differences in the Prevalence of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Among Bariatric Surgery Patients

Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care

1/12/2016

Sarah E. Messiah, Denise C. Vidot, Joao B. Bispo, Kristopher L. Arheart, Zhamak Khorgami, Nestor de la Cruz-Muñoz

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Predictors of Short-Term Diabetes Remission After Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

Obesity Surgery

1/5/2015

Gianluca Iacobellis, Cong Xu, Rene Campo, Nestor de la Cruz-Muñoz

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Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Is an Effective Bridge to Kidney Transplantation: Results from a Single Center

Clinical Transplantation

1/5/2018

Ian A. Thomas, Junichiro J. Gaynor, Tiffany Joseph, Nestor de la Cruz-Muñoz, Junichiro Sageshima, Warren Kupin, Linda J. Chen, Gaetano Ciancio, George W. Burke III, Alessia D. Mattiazzi, David Roth, Giselle Guerra

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Successful Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients Without Interruption of Their CKD6 Treatment Modality

Advances in Peritoneal Dialysis

1/1/2012

Gaetano A. Valle, Brian E. Kissane, Nestor de la Cruz-Muñoz

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Assessing Risk Factors, Presentation, and Management of Portomesenteric Vein Thrombosis After Sleeve Gastrectomy: A Multicenter Case-Control Study

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases (SOARD)

1/4/2018

Rena C. Moon, Muhammad Ghanem, Andre F. Teixeira, Nestor de la Cruz-Muñoz, Michael K. Young, Patrick Domkowski, John Radecke, Scott G. Boyce, Raul Rosenthal, Emanuele Lo Menzo, David G. Blanco, Diego R. Funes, Muhammad A. Jawad

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Preoperative Prognosticators of Safe Laparoscopic Hepatocellular Carcinoma Resection in Advanced Cirrhosis: A Propensity Score Matching Population-Based Analysis of 1,799 Western Patients

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

1/6/2019

Eduardo A. Vega, Onur C. Kutlu, Katharina Joechle, Nestor de la Cruz-Muñoz, Daniel Ko, Claudius Conrad

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Does a Laparoscopic Approach to Distal Pancreatectomy for Cancer Contribute to Optimal Adjuvant Chemotherapy Utilization?

Annals of Surgical Oncology

1/6/2021

Omar Slaehi, Eduardo A. Vega, Onur C. Kutlu, Sanjay Krishnan, David Sleeman, Nestor de la Cruz-Muñoz, Sergio Alarcon, Veronika Kazakova, Olga Kozyreva, Claudius Conrad

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Long-Term Outcomes After Adolescent Bariatric Surgery

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

1/10/2022

Nestor de la Cruz-Muñoz, Luyu Xie, Hallie J. Quiroz, Onur C. Kutlu, Folefac Atem, Steven E. Lipshultz, M. Sunil Mathew, Sarah E. Messiah

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Comparison of Upper Gastrointestinal Series and Symptom Questionnaires with Intraoperative Diagnosis of Hiatal Hernia During Sleeve Gastrectomy

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases (SOARD)

10/1/2023

Alejandro J. Ribieras, Edgardo J. Monzon Canales, Karime Manzur-Pineda, Moises Cuesta, Onur Kutlu, Nestor de la Cruz-Muñoz