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Methods: The study included 55 patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease who underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy at a tertiary institution. The analysis consisted of preoperative liver biopsy, abdominal ultrasound, weight loss parameters, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Fibrosis Score and selected laboratory parameters. Results: Before the surgery, 6 patients were diagnosed with grade 1 liver steatosis, 33 patients with grade 2 and 16 patients with grade 3. One year after the surgery, only 21 patients had features of liver steatosis at ultrasound. All weight loss parameters showed statistically significant changes during the observation; the median percentage of total weight loss was 31.0% (IQR: 27.5; 34.5) with p = 0.0003, the median percentage of excess weight loss was 61.8% (IQR: 52.4; 72.3) with p = 0.0013 and the median percentage of excess body mass index loss was 71.0% (IQR: 61.3; 86.9) with p = 0.0036 12 months after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. The median Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Fibrosis Score at baseline was 0.2 (IQR: \u22120.8; 1.0) and decreased to \u22121.6 (IQR: \u22122.4; \u22120.4) (p &lt; 0.0001). Moderate negative correlations between Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Fibrosis Score and percentage of total weight loss (r = \u22120.434, p &lt; 0.0001), percentage of excess weight loss (r = \u22120.456, p &lt; 0.0001) and percentage of excess body mass index loss (r = \u22120.512, p &lt; 0.0001) were found. 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