title: A morbid obese Japanese woman with a body mass index of 83.2 kg/m2: before and after sleeve gastrectomy.
abstract: A 34-year-old Japanese woman presented at our institution weighing 182.7 kg, 148.2 cm tall, and with a body mass index of 83.2 kg/m(2). She had been overweight since childhood, but no abnormality was found to explain her obesity. Treatments, including mazindol, bofu-tsusho-san, dietary restriction, and BioEnterics Intragastric Balloon, did not result in improvement of her obesity. Finally, we performed sleeve gastrectomy, and she has maintained her weight within 130-140 kg without rebounding for 2 and a half years. We followed the clinical changes before and after the operation. This case provides potentially interesting information regarding operative treatment for morbid obesity in Japanese.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Medicine, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: Maki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goto
authors.forename: Kaori
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authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: Takahisa
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authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Yuri
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authors.lastname: Kaneko
authors.forename: Atsushi
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authors.lastname: Goto
authors.forename: Kenjiro
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authors.lastname: Imai
authors.forename: Noriko
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authors.lastname: Ihana
authors.forename: Tetsuro
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authors.lastname: Tsujimoto
authors.forename: Yuka
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authors.lastname: Kosuga
authors.forename: Yosuke
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authors.lastname: Seki
authors.forename: Kazunori
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authors.lastname: Kasama
authors.forename: Kazuki
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authors.lastname: Yasuda
authors.forename: Miyako
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authors.lastname: Kishimoto
authors.forename: Yoshihiko
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authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Hiroshi
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authors.lastname: Kajio
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authors.lastname: Noda
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D044466:Asian People; D015992:Body Mass Index; D005260:Female; D005743:Gastrectomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome