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Surgical Approaches to Morbid Obesity

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The morbidly obese individual has been defined by Scott et al1 as “one who has reached two or three or more times his ideal weight and who has maintained this level for five years or more despite efforts by himself, his family, and his physican to bring about effective and sustained reduction of weight to acceptable medical standards.” Morbid obesity has also been defined as “greater than 100 pounds over insurance table” ideal weight.2 It is likely that operations designed to reduce weight in the morbidly obese individual will gradually assume increasing importance once the indications are better defined, further improvements in operative techniques are made, and the complications better understood and treated. The various surgical procedures currently being employed for the treatment of obesity will be reviewed and an analysis made of the complications.

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  1. Baltej S. Maini MD
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  1. Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

    Joseph J. Vitale ScD, MD (Director of Nutrition Education Programs, Professor of Pathology Associate Dean for International Health) & Selwyn A. Broitman PhD (Professor of Microbiology and Nutrirional Sciences) (Director of Nutrition Education Programs, Professor of Pathology Associate Dean for International Health) &  (Professor of Microbiology and Nutrirional Sciences)

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Maini, B.S., Blackburn, G.L. (1982). Surgical Approaches to Morbid Obesity. In: Vitale, J.J., Broitman, S.A. (eds) Advances in Human Clinical Nutrition. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8290-1_13

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