Within two years after gastric bypass, the patients had lost an average of nearly 100 pounds.
Men before and after tummy tuck after gastric bypass skin#
A matched group of 102 patients with similar characteristics underwent gastric bypass alone, without body contouring.īody contouring surgery usually consisted of abdominoplasty ("tummy tuck"), often with other procedures to remove excess skin from the breasts, legs and upper arms. In 98 patients, gastric bypass was followed by body contouring procedures to remove excess fat and skin. The researchers compared long-term weight outcomes for two groups of patients who underwent gastric bypass surgery.
Better Long-Term Weight Control after Body Contouring Since maintaining weight loss to reduce long-term health problems is the key goal of bariatric surgery, the researchers believe that body contouring should be considered reconstructive rather than cosmetic surgery for patients who have achieved massive weight loss.
Ali Modarressi and colleagues of University of Geneva, Switzerland.
"We demonstrated that patients with body contouring present better long-term weight control after gastric bypass," according to the study by Dr. Body contouring surgery to remove excess skin improves long-term weight control in patients after gastric bypass surgery, reports a study in the October issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
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