Morbid obesity in infancy or early childhood is a challenging disease to manage. Here, we present the case report of the successful management of a 2-year-old girl child with morbidly obesity who was bedridden and had sleep apnoea and underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. Bariatric surgery in this age group comes with a lot of decision-making challenges and technical and ethical considerations, and literature is scant on paediatric bariatric surgery. We describe the case and associated challenges in detail in this report.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11601956 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jmas.jmas_170_23 | DOI Listing |
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