[Early postoperative period in patients subjected to surgery for noncorrectable obesity]

The early postoperative period after jejunoileoshunting for high degree of the alimentary-constitutional obesity was found to have a number of specific features and to be an important period greatly responsible for the outcome of the operation. The very early active management of such patients was shown to improve the postoperative course and to reduce the number of pulmonary complications. In 85 patients an original technique of jejunoileoshunting was used.