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'No link between obesity-related surgery & death'

16 Jul 2007, 0306 hrs IST , Ketan Tanna , TNN

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Liposuction
an operation involving the removal of deposits of fat from parts of the body
through a tiny incision is proving costly for many looking to cut
flab.

Kin of a 21-year-old boy
who died in Chennai recently after a stomach stapling operation is contemplating
going to the court. A 46-year-old stock broker died last month after
complications arising from liposuction. In February, the obese man had decided
to undergo liposuction at a private clinic in the Khar suburb of Mumbai. The
broker's family alleges that his colon ruptured during the liposuction
operation. A colostomy operation was done on him after the liposuction
procedure. The colostomy operation failed and he eventually died of an
infection. The doctor who performed the operation has refused to comment.
General medical opinion is that obesity-related operations constitute a
"category risk". "It happens in the West too," said a doctor, although official
statistics are hard to come by. "There's risk attached to any surgical
procedure," he added.

There
have been instances of death following cosmetic surgery but the families of the
deceased have accepted that the operations had nothing to do with the tragedy.
Last May, Jude Harris (surname changed) chose to have a tummy tuck and breast
reduction. Four days after the surgery, the hospital informed her sister that
the mother of three had died of a "blood clot that travelled to her lungs". The
family is not blaming the hospital for her death and has maintained that Jude
could have died due to a "freak accident". The medical fraternity maintains that
deaths following obesity-related operations are usually caused by factors that
have nothing to do with the operations. But doctors do warn patients that
surgeries like stomach-stapling have to be resorted to only when they are
absolutely necessary.

Dr Abhay
Dalvi of KEM Hospital says, "Bariatric surgery should be done only for the
morbidly obese. That too when the person's weight continues to shorten his or
her lifespan. Such surgeries are not cosmetic in nature. The surgery should be
done when all other options, like dieting, have been explored.
"

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