C2 - Wednesday, June 2, 1982 - North Shore News

DEALING WITH OBESITY

CHICAGO — Stomach-
staple surgery must be re-
evaluated because the in-
creasingly popular weight-
loss procedure for obese
patients has such a high
failure rate, a Canadian
surgeon says.

Dr. Joel Freeman, chief of
general surgery at Ottawa
General Hospital, told the
Society for Surgery of Ab-
mentary Tract meeting that
of the 120 patients he treated
with stomach-staple surgery.
only half were able to lose
weight and keep it off.

“This procedure ... has
caught on much too
quickly,” Freeman said in
presenting his findings on
Wednesday. “It's being done
in community hospitals with
as much confidence as ap
pendectomy 1s done for ap
pendicitis. It should still be
regarded as cxpenmental

“Women who go from 300
pounds might into a bikin
will come back to your office
kissing your feet and giving
you plaques. It’s casy to
become overly optimistic

“On the other hand. it's
discouraging to see somconc
who lost 150 pounds, and
then two years later, they're
gaining it back again ~

The procedure involves
placing surgical staples
across an arca shghtly below
the top of the paticots
stomach to reduce the size of
the food pouch The smatlicr
stomach arca means the

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patient will feel full though
consuming less food.
Freeman noted, however,
some patients fail to lose
Significant amounts of
weight and others eat
enough to force the
stomach to expand. In other
cases, he said, the staples
pull out and negate the

surgery.

Freeman said he has modi-
fied the operation to include
vertical staples running
parallel to the side of the
stomach and inserting a
plastic ring around the open-
ing at the bottom of the
pouch to keep the opening
from getting larger.

Stapling stomach not the answer

However, he noted, there
is no guarantee his pro-
cedure will work any better
because obese people
probably “gain weight more
easily than most of us” and
studies indicate diets without
vigorous exercise tend to
fail.

“You can tie a person's

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mouth shut or tie his
stomach shut, and he will
lose weight, but just cannot
keep it off,” Freeman said.
“Many of my patients just
won't take up an exercise
program, even while they
are losing weight.”

Freeman, who is an
associate professor of
surgery at the University of
Ottawa's medical school,
estimated more than 30,000
stomach-staple operations

have been performed in the
last four years.

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