How to deal with morbid obesity? |
Surgery: bypass
The by-pass technique is a little different because in addition to reducing the size of the stomach, the surgeon creates a kind of a food short-circuit, restricting food or causing mal-absorption.
Doctors believe that this operation is a success only when their patients recover from morbid obesity, that is when they lose, within eighteen months after the operation, half of their excessive weight. That's what happens in 70% of the cases. Patients then find themselves with a BMI below 35.
Despite these encouraging figures, it is not systematically proposed, as it presents more complication risks than fitting a simple gastric ring.
In the by-pass technique, you have to open the stomach, cut the digestive tube and then suture it. If it heals badly, the intestine sutures will leak and the digestive content may fall into the abdominal cavity. The patient may die of peritonitis in the first eight days following the operation. Fortunately this rarely happens.
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