The value of psychiatric team screening of candidates for jejunoileal bypass surgery.
The relationship between successful outcome of jejunoileal bypass surgery and the results of evaluation by a psychiatric team is reported on. In a surgical group of sixty-one patients, the recommendations of the team were found to be significantly related to the outcome of surgery and correctly identified the emotional hazards so common in this procedure.
D006801:Humans; D007082:Ileum / Q000601:surgery*; D007583:Jejunum / Q000601:surgery*; D008950:MMPI; D009765:Obesity / Q000628:therapy*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011584:Psychology