A MORBIDLY obese two-year-old has become the youngest person in the world to undergo bariatric surgery.

Sunday, September 22, 2013

A MORBIDLY obese two-year-old has become the youngest person in the world to undergo bariatric surgery.

News.com.au

Morbidly obese two-year-old world's youngest to have bariatric surgery

September 19, 2013

Youngest ever to undergo bariatric surgery ... The morbidly obese two-year-old boy from Saudi Arabia who had bariatric surgery. Picture: Australian Doctor Web GrabSource: Supplied

The parents of the toddler from Saudi Arabia who weighed 33kg and had a Body Mass Index of 41 sought help because he suffered sleep apnoea that caused him to stop breathing while asleep.
Two attempts to control his weight by dieting failed said the medics who carried out the bariatric surgery Mohammed Al Mohaidlya, Ahmed Sulimana and Horia Malawib in an article in the
International Journal of Surgery Case Reports.
When he first presented to an endocrinologist at 14 months, the toddler weighed 21.3kg but after dieting for four months his weight increased by eight kilograms.
The doctors from Prince Sultan Military Medical City at Riyadh were unable to ascertain whether the child's parents stuck to the diet.
By the time the boy was referred to the obesity clinic he weighed 29.4kg and his obesity had led to sleep apnoea and bowing of the legs.
A further attempt at dieting failed and when he reached 33kg doctors decided to perform surgery.
Surgeons carried out a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy on the boy which involved removing the outer margin of the stomach to restrict food intake, leaving a sleeve of stomach, roughly the size and shape of a banana.
Unlike a lap band, the surgery is not reversible.

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