Author(s)

José Humberto Cardoso Resende¹, Ana Letícia Pinto Guimarães², Brunna Abreu Perillo², Ana Carolina Melo Maluf², Laura Ribeiro da Costa², Rafaella Cristina Gomes Bernardes², Arthur Camargo Pires², Thalles Gonçalves Souza Menezes², Murilo Calil Alves², Emídio Silva Falcão Brasileiro³

¹UNIFAN, Work Coordinator, Aparecida de Goiânia, Brazil.
²UNIFAN, Medicine Academics, Aparecida de Goiânia, Brazil.
³UNIFAN, Research Coordinator, Aparecida de Goiânia, Brazil.

Depending on the treatment and weight of the breasts or abdomen, they may exceed volumes considered giant and morbidly obese. In these cases, and when the patient’s BMI is high above 40 kg/m2, the weight of the breasts or abdomen produces what we consider suffocation when the patient is placed in horizontal position on surgical tables, decreasing his respiratory capacity and increasing the difficulty in treating respiratory or embolic risks. An 8-kg breast on the patient’s chest prevents normal breathing. An abdomen with a volume of 30 kg causes difficulties in all senses, making the physiological expansion of the lungs impossible and even preventing surgical assistance to patients. These patients are almost always customers who sleep in the sitting position to breathe better. The gigantic extirpation of the surgical parts facilitates a better respiratory expansion reducing by a large percentage the risk of death, what we call body relief. This relief does not free the patient from bariatric surgery for a possible weight loss, which is vital for the proper functioning of the organs and decreasing arterial hypertension and diabetes.

Obesity, Disease, Surgery, Bariatric, Risk, Hypertension and Diabetes

Resende, J. , Guimarães, A. , Perillo, B. , Maluf, A. , Costa, L. , Bernardes, R. , Pires, A. , Menezes, T. , Alves, M. and Brasileiro, E. (2020) Obesity: Body Relief Surgeries before Bariatric Surgery for Risk Reduction. Modern Plastic Surgery, 10, 31-37. doi: 10.4236/mps.2020.103005.