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Table of contents
When should surgery be considered?
Adiposity
- Introduction
- Definition and diagnosis
- Secondary diseases
- Epidemiology and costs
- Physiology and pathophysiology
- Behavioural and psychological aspects
- Drugs
- Hereditary factors
- Causes of morbid adiposity
- Therapeutic approaches and outlooks
Conservative therapy for morbid adiposity
- Conservative therapy for morbid adiposity?
- Morbid adiposity grades I and II
- Drugs
- Modern nutritional therapy concepts for weight control
- Stomach bubble
Surgical therapy for morbid adiposity
- Introduction
- Agreements of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity
- Patient selection, education and preparation
- Infrastructure and human resources
- Patient education
- General complications, risks with anaesthetics
- Operative techniques for adiposity surgery
- Intestinal Bypass, malabsorptive procedures
- Combination procedures, stomach volume reduction and by-pass
- Restrictive procedures (reduction of stomach volume)
- Insertion of stomach band using laparoscopy