Bariatric Surgery Health
Risks
Bariatric surgery to reduce obesity is a
serious undertaking. Prospective patients for bariatric surgery need to
appreciate what a gastrointestinal weight loss operation involves. Here
are some health risks and health benefits of bariatric weight loss operations.
Bariatric Surgery Benefits
On the one hand, weight loss surgery improves
most obesity-related conditions. For example, after bariatric surgery,
most patients lose weight quickly and continue to lose for 18 to 24 months
after the procedure. Many bariatric patients maintain a long-term weight
loss of about 100 pounds.
Bariatric Surgery Risks
Ten to 20 percent of patients who have weight-loss
surgery require follow-up operations to correct complications. Also, nearly
30 percent of patients who have weight-loss surgery develop nutritional
deficiencies such as anemia, osteoporosis, and metabolic bone disease,
although these deficiencies may be avoided if vitamin and mineral intakes
are high enough.
Examples of Complications After Bariatric
Surgery
Abdominal hernia was the most common complication
requiring follow-up surgery, but laparoscopic techniques seem to have
solved this problem. However, patients who are superobese (>350 pounds)
or have had previous abdominal surgery may not be good candidates for
laparoscopy. Other complications include breakdown of the staple line
and stretched stomach outlets. Some obese patients who have weight-loss
surgery develop gallstones.
Health Risks of Gastric Bypass Bariatric
Surgery
According to the 2000 Mayo Clinic study on
gastric bypass, 20 to 25 percent of the bariatric surgery patients developed
life-threatening complications within five years, in addition to a 10
percent morbidity and mortality during the post-op period. Those are similar
rates to the weight loss drug phen-fen, which was considered dangerous
enough to take off the market.
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Weight
Loss Surgery Information
How
Weight Loss Surgery Works - Morbid
Obesity - Morbid
Obesity Surgery
Treatment of Obesity
- Bariatric
Surgery Health Risks - Abdominoplasty
Gastric Banding - Gastric
Bypass - Mini
Gastric Bypass - Gastroplasty
Laparoscopic
Gastric Bypass - Roux
En Y Gastric Bypass - Lap
Band Surgery
Lap Band - Lap
Band FAQs - Biliopancreatic
Diversion - Duodenal
Switch
Liposuction - Liposuction
Surgery - Superwet
Liposuction - Tumescent
Ultrasonic Liposuction
- Tummy Tuck - Mini
Tummy Tuck - Stomach
Stapling
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