Weight Loss Surgery - Obesity
Treatment
Surgical procedures for obesity include
restrictive techniques (adjustable gastric banding, vertical banded gastroplasty)
and malabsorptive techniques (Roux-en-Y gastric bypass). Surgery is the
most effective and possibly cost effective method for reducing weight
in people with severe obesity.
Although surgical treatments are associated
with greater long term weight reduction than either behavioural or pharmacotherapeutic
interventions, they are only recommended in adults with morbid obesity
because of potential operative, peri-operative, and long term complications.
A recent report, however, suggests that surgery for obesity is under-utilised
and that eligible patients are not being referred for these potentially
beneficial procedures. Obese patients should be referred to an experienced
interdisciplinary team for evaluation.
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