Influence of bariatric surgery on the peripheral blood immune system of female patients with morbid obesity revealed by high-dimensional mass cytometry.

Our results clearly demonstrate that the rapid adaptions in inflammatory parameters and adipocytokine levels that occur within the first year post-surgery do not translate to the peripheral immune cells. Apart from that, we described highly affected, distinct immune cell subsets, defined as CD127 memory T cells and monocytic CD14, HLA-DR, CD11b, CXCR3 cells, that might play a significant role in understanding and further decoding the etiopathogenesis of morbid obesity.