- Practice book for general practitioners, family physicians and practicing gastroenterologists
- All about follow-up and long-term care of bariatric surgery patients
- Know and treat postoperative complication management and metabolic changes
The lifelong care required for bariatric surgery patients often presents colleagues in the office with the situation of having to identify surgical and nutritive complications related to the previous surgery. This often requires very specialized knowledge not only of the surgical procedures themselves, but especially of the metabolic changes that follow surgery.
Based on many years of experience in the leading surgical obesity centers in Germany, the editors have compiled this book. It offers practical guidance for the follow-up care of obesity patients who have undergone surgery. With practical relevance, the book supports general practitioners and internists in their competence to recognize and treat postoperative changes and complications.
The diverse and complex physiological changes are explained as well as the necessary knowledge of surgical procedures. The topics of nutrition, deficiencies and supplementation after surgery, possible complications and intervention options are highlighted. Monitoring of pregnancy following bariatric surgical intervention also takes on special emphasis.
Table of Contents- Obesity: To Eat or Not to Eat—A Hypothalamic Question?
- History of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
- Current Standard Procedures of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
- Pathophysiology: Restriction, Duodenal Exclusion, Malabsorption
- Follow-up Intervals and Priorities
- Postoperative Nutrition
- Postoperative Supplementation
- Nutritional Deficiencies
- Early Postoperative Complaints
- Postoperative Gallstone Formation
- Postoperative Kidney Stone Formation
- Bone Metabolism and Osteoporosis
- Dumping Syndrome
- Postoperative Fertility Enhancement and Contraception After Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
- Pregnancy After Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
- Drug Absorption/Postoperative Adjustment of Chronic Medication
- Weight Regain
- Malnutrition and Extreme Weight Loss
- Addiction Transfer
- Endoscopic Postoperative Diagnosis and Endoscopic Bariatric Interventions
- Less Common Complications
- Post-Bariatric Body Contouring
