Prevalence and desire for body contouring surgery in postbariatric patients in Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Background:Morbid obesity has become a common problem worldwide and as a result the demand for bariatric surgery has increased as well. Most patients develop skin redundancy and sagging at many body parts after major weight loss procedures which increased the demand for body contouring procedures.Aims:The study was to address the prevalence and patient's desire for body contouring procedures.Materials and Methods:A cross-sectional study targeting the postbariatric patients from April 2011 to October 2011 was conducted at our hospital. Questionnaire was administered in order to measure frequency and patients desire to undergo body contouring surgery after massive weight loss.Results:The total number of patients was 128 patients. The mean age of our patients was 37-year old (range 18-56 year). The percentage of the desire for body contouring surgery after bariatric surgery was 78.1%. There was very pronounced desire to body contouring surgery after those who underwent gastric bypass surgery with P-value 0.001. Only 18 patients (14%) have underwent body contouring surgery, with a total of 29 procedures, in which abdominoplasty considered the most commonly procedure performed (57%).Conclusion:With the increasing number of weight loss surgery, there is higher number of patients that desire a body contouring surgery, which create huge disparity between demand and accessibility.

Long-Term Results of Incisional Hernia Repair with Concomitant Abdominoplasty in Postbariatric Patients

“…Our observations are consistent with these of other authors in bariatric groups after complex body contouring surgery, especially among the women (1,5).…”

“…to Kitzinger, to 47% acc. to While and Mitchel (1). Moreover, no single operation can address the whole-body disfigurements resulting from significant weight loss (18,19,20).…”

“…Obesity present in more than 10% of the world's adult population is still statistically connected with increased morbidity and mortality, resulting from the following obesityinduced systemic disorders -cardiovascular, respiratory, metabolic, musculoskeletal, oncologic, and psychiatric (1).…”

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“…Several studies have shown that there is a large discrepancy between the number of post bariatric patients requesting body contouring surgery and the number undergoing such surgery (14,15,18,19). The proportion of post bariatric patients who have undergone one or more body contouring procedures vary from 14-47%, of which abdominoplasty is by far the most common procedure (33,36,37). Corresponding figures describing the relationship between requested and performed body contouring surgery for Sweden are lacking.…”

“…According to the literature, 73-85% of post bariatric patient's request body contouring surgery (29,(33)(34)(35)(36). Request for correction of abdominal excess skin was most commonly followed by thighs, chest and arms (33).…”