Obesity as a global epidemic has rapidly increased in incidence in the recent few decades and represents one of the biggest public health challenges. Obesity plays a major risk for various diseases such as cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes mellitus (DM), hypercholesterolemia, osteoarthritis and some form of cancers. Bariatric and metabolic surgery provides the best solution for obesity and its associated comorbidities. This chapter will discuss in detail the commonly performed bariatric and metabolic surgeries.
Foreign body (FB) ingestion is a common and potentially serious problem in the pediatric age group. We describe a case of a 2-year-old boy who presented 15 days after ingesting a metallic nail. He was asymptomatic since then, and the FB had not passed spontaneously. Emergency laparotomy was done, and the FB was removed. Spontaneous passage had been inadvertently allowed for 15 days in this case, instead of the recommended 3 days. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of ingested metallic nail not having passed spontaneously after a period of 15 days. Our emphasis on presenting this case report has been on the timely surgical intervention.
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