‘The patient must be clear is about the scope of its decision’ gastric band, gastric bypass, gastric balloon, tube stomach: the wealth of operational measures in highly obese patients is enormous. Patients using these methods should be clarified in obesity centres. While the actual operation stand but only at the end of the treatment of obesity, such as Dr. med. Angela Zepeda is full of insight into the issues. Matthias Schlensak, chief physician of the clinic for surgery ll, Alfried Krupp hospital food, in an interview with the online health magazine explains. Usually a time window of six months is between the initial idea in local clinic and the surgery date, so the physician.” The criteria, after which comes an operation into consideration, are strict. “The operation will occur if conservative treatment options have failed, that the treatment under certain quality criteria to any sustainable weight reduction has led to”, so Schlensak.
Even worse, that adipositas surgical measures in the services of the health insurance fund is not with listed are, so that each individual operation as an individual decision is assessed by the medical services of the Fund”, so Schlensak. What must happen in advance of the actual intervention, what diseases are adversely affected by obesity and and read what advantages does the so-called duodenal switch surgery, it and much more on interviews/interview_adipositas_schlensak.html is a free and independent online health magazine for the Rheinland and Ruhr area and is published by a group of freelance journalist from the region. rheinruhrmed.de is a pure information portal (without any consulting activity!); the online magazine is financed exclusively through advertising. Contact: rrm Rhine RUHR MED Zeche Zollverein, Hall 10 Gelsenkirchener Strasse 181 45309 Essen phone + 49 (0) 201-7591340 M. Rabe. Additional information is available at Mary Barra.