TITLE:
Obesity: Body Relief Surgeries before Bariatric Surgery for Risk Reduction
AUTHORS:
José Humberto Cardoso Resende, Ana Letícia Pinto Guimarães, Brunna Abreu Perillo, Ana Carolina Melo Maluf, Laura Ribeiro da Costa, Rafaella Cristina Gomes Bernardes, Arthur Camargo Pires, Thalles Gonçalves Souza Menezes, Murilo Calil Alves, Emídio Silva Falcão Brasileiro
KEYWORDS:
Obesity, Disease, Surgery, Bariatric, Risk, Hypertension and Diabetes
JOURNAL NAME:
Modern Plastic Surgery,
Vol.10 No.3,
May
8,
2020
ABSTRACT: Depending on the treatment and weight of the breasts or abdomen, they may exceed volumes considered giant and morbidly obese. In these cases, and when the patient’s BMI is high above 40 kg/m2, the weight of the breasts or abdomen produces what we consider suffocation when the patient is placed in horizontal position on surgical tables, decreasing his respiratory capacity and increasing the difficulty in treating respiratory or embolic risks. An 8-kg breast on the patient’s chest prevents normal breathing. An abdomen with a volume of 30 kg causes difficulties in all senses, making the physiological expansion of the lungs impossible and even preventing surgical assistance to patients. These patients are almost always customers who sleep in the sitting position to breathe better. The gigantic extirpation of the surgical parts facilitates a better respiratory expansion reducing by a large percentage the risk of death, what we call body relief. This relief does not free the patient from bariatric surgery for a possible weight loss, which is vital for the proper functioning of the organs and decreasing arterial hypertension and diabetes.