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The Prevalence of Body Contouring Surgery After Gastric Bypass Surgery

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Background

As bariatric surgery has become more popular, more patients are undergoing body contouring surgery after massive weight loss. Many of the surgical procedures performed on the massive weight loss patient are complex and labor-intensive. Therefore, the plastic surgery unit needs to be prepared for a patient's demand. Little literature is available on how frequently patients who have undergone gastric bypass surgery receive body contouring surgery.

Methods

Two hundred fifty-two subjects (out of 425 who were mailed the questionnaire) who had undergone gastric bypass surgery between 2003 and 2009 completed the questionnaire, which obtained information on body image satisfaction and frequency of body contouring surgery after massive weight loss.

Results

Of all patients, 74% desire a body contouring surgery after gastric bypass surgery. Fifty-three patients (21%) have undergone a total of 61 body contouring procedures. The most common were abdominoplasties (59%), followed by lower body lifts (20%). In contrast to a positive judgment of the general aspect of the body image satisfaction after massive weight loss, both genders are unsatisfied with body areas like abdomen/waist, breast, and thighs.

Conclusions

Paralleling the increasing use of bariatric surgery, there is a high demand for body contouring surgery. A huge disparity exists between the number of subjects who desire a body contouring surgery and those who actually received it.

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None of the aforementioned authors have any commercial interest in the subject of this study, nor did they get any financial or material support.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Divison of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, General Hospital Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    Hugo B. Kitzinger, Sara Abayev, Anna Pittermann, Birgit Karle, Harald Kubiena & Manfred Frey

  2. Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, General Hospital Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    Arthur Bohdjalian, Felix B. Langer & Gerhard Prager

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Kitzinger, H.B., Abayev, S., Pittermann, A. et al. The Prevalence of Body Contouring Surgery After Gastric Bypass Surgery. OBES SURG 22, 8–12 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-011-0459-1

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