Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: The World Health Organization has defined obesity and overweight as "abnormal or excessive accumulation of fat that can negatively affect health" and declared this pathology a global epidemic. To classify obesity in many countries, including Russia, the body mass index (BMI) is used, calculated by the formula: weight (kg) / height (m2). At the same time, BMI ≥ 25 indicates overweight, and BMI ≥ 30 indicates obesity. Many foreign researchers attribute overweight and obesity to multifactorial, complex, multigenic disorders that are closely related to the characteristics of the psychosocial and cultural environment. Material and methods. Patient H., 54 years old, was examined. Preoperative examination revealed a picture of morbid obesity of alimentary constitutional genesis, abdominal type, complicated by a giant fat fold of the anterior abdominal wall and secondary lymphedema. An atypical middle abdominoplasty with a reconstructive component of the anterior abdominal wall was performed. Results. Successful removal of 60 kg fat "apron". Findings. Based on our clinical experience, we can say that patients with advanced morbid obesity respond positively to complex treatment with minimal complications in the postoperative period. Removal of the main adipose tissue collector has a positive effect on further weight loss in combination with conservative therapy.
Institution: Samarkand State Medical Institute
Language: English
Subfield: Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7212295368