Treatment of excessive weight loss after bariatric surgery – case report

Piotr Rękawek, Jarosław Lichota, Jan Pawlus, Tadeusz Sulikowski

Abstract


Bariatric surgeries help overcome severe obesity and its complications. Due the increase in numbers of obese patients, these procedures are gaining in popularity. In this article we report the case of patient operated on twice for obesity, whose treatment was complicated by excessive weight loss.

Keywords


obesity; malnutrition; bariatric surgery

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21164/pomjlifesci.809

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