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Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Operation in Rats
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Gastric bypass for giant morbid obesity
The Medical Journal of Australia
|September 20, 1980
Abstract:
A 35-year-old man, grossly incapacitated by giant morbid obesity, and showing pathological sequelae of it, weighed 225.45 kg at presentation. After gastric bypass, his body weight decreased by 48% over approximately one year. After abdominoplasty and reduction of thigh skin folds, his weight stabilized at 116.36 kg. All sequelae of the morbid obesity had resolved, and the patient was able to resume a normal lifestyle and to re-enter the work force.
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