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Gastro 2016
August 11-12, 2016
Volume 6, Issue 4(Suppl) J Gastrointest Dig Syst 2016
ISSN:2161-069X JGDS, an open access journal
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August 11-12, 2016 Birmingham, UK
6th Global Gastroenterologists Meeting
Mohammad Hayssam Elfawal, J Gastrointest Dig Syst 2016, 6:4(Suppl)
Obesity surgery in the awake: Is it feasible?
Mohammad Hayssam Elfawal
BSC - Bariatric Surgery Clinic, Lebanon
Obesity is a chronic and progressive disease, associated with related metabolic disorders, causing severe morbidity and
mortality around the globe. Sleeve gastrectomy is being performed with increasing frequency in the world for the
treatment of morbid obesity. General anaesthesia carries a significant risk in the obese individual and especially those who
had metabolic syndrome (diabetes hypertension or coronary artery disease). We started in the bariatric surgery clinic (BSC)
in Makassed hospital in Beirut to do sleeve gastrectomy under block anaesthesia (awake patient) in the year 2010 for the first
time in the world. Thereafter we did 35 cases of sleeve under block. We report hereby our results in terms of safety efficacy and
resolution of comorbidities after 3 years of follow up.
Biography
Arabic University of Beirut since year 2005. Diploma in Hepato-biliary and transplant surgery : University of Paris -6- / France in year 2003 Fellow in the American
college of Surgeons since year 2011.