title: Management of the challenging bariatric surgical patient.
abstract: Despite the continued increase in surgical procedures for weight loss, the dramatic increase in the prevalence of morbid obesity far outpaces the treatments to correct it. As a result, the primary care physician is increasingly more likely to be evaluating patients who are either candidates for weight loss surgery or who have already undergone a weight loss procedure. Unique medical and social situations must be considered when evaluating these patients, and it is anticipated that all physicians will be seeing a greater number of complex or challenging patients.
authors.affiliation: Division of General and Laparoendoscopic Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Dr., Mail Code 7842, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA. sickle@uthscsa.edu
authors.forename: Kent R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Van Sickle
mesh_terms: D050110:Bariatric Surgery / Q000379:methods*; D005194:Family Practice / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*; D010346:Patient Care Management; D011300:Preoperative Care; D011320:Primary Health Care; D018570:Risk Assessment