Abstract
With the increasing prevalence of severe obesity worldwide, surgical treatment for severely obese patients is becoming more popular. Bariatric surgery has occasionally been performed as a precursor to major operations for serious diseases to make these difficult surgeries safer for severely obese patients. We present the case of a severely obese patient with a dissected abdominal aortic aneurysm and left iliac artery aneurysm. Initially, we performed bariatric surgery on this patient to reduce perioperative risk and then subsequently performed bifurcated graft replacement. A 54-year-old man presented at our hospital for bariatric surgery before open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy was performed; 15 months later, the patient's weight and BMI had decreased from 139.0 kg to 97.6 kg and from 48.7 kg/m(2) to 34.2 kg/m(2) , respectively. Bifurcated graft replacement was performed safely without postoperative complications. Bariatric surgery was also effective in controlling the patient's blood pressure during the interval between surgeries.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 149-151 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Asian journal of endoscopic surgery |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 01-05-2016 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Gastroenterology
- Surgery