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Risks involved with weight loss surgery
All major surgeried involve a certain level of risk, including death. Risks involved with weight loss surgery vary according to the procedure performed. Ask your surgeon to discuss these specific risks with you as part of your consultation. In a survey of 22,000 patients, the mortality rate for weight loss procedure was 0.3%
1) Early:
- Bleeding, anastomotic leak, injury to adjacent to adjacent viscera like liver spleen, or bowel and acute gastric dilatation.
- Port site related: wound infection, sinus formation, suture extrusion, hernia formation etc.
- Repetitive vomiting: due to stomal edema, improper chewing of the meals, Roux limb stasis, distention of the excluded stomach, or psychological.
- Easy fatigability
- Slow weight loss
- Dumping syndrome
- Deficiency of trace elements and vitamins
2) Late:
- Bowel obstruction
- Stomal ulceration and/or stenosis
- Hyperuricemia
- Cholelithiasis
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- Eating Thrills but… Obesity Kills!!!
- Emerging as the next big killer after smoking in India with over 2.2 crore Indians being obese.
- Every 3rd persons in the US and every 5th person in the UK suffering from obesity
- Research shows a 10% annual rise in juvenile obesity, many of them weighing 80-100 kgs even at a tender age of 10-15 years!
- 1 kg weight gain = 1 to 1.5% increase in mortality. By loosing 1 kg of body weight you live 3 to 4 months more.
- Obese employees are twice more likely to experience high and moderate levels of absenteeism
- Obesity can cause high blood pressure, diabetes, cardiac problems, sleep apnea, high cholesterol, and a host of other illnesses.