The Bariatric surgical field has experienced extraordinary changes over the past 55 years.
With the initial empiric use of Intestinal Bypass surgery in 1954 by Kremen, Linner and Nelson at the University of Minnesota, severe obesity was identified as a disease that could be successfully treated.
Today, the acceptance of Bariatric Surgery is a proven surgical discipline. It hasn’t always been that way, and has gone through a long bumpy road in a very hostile environment. It has gone from acid critics and nonbelievers to a great demand of this kind of surgery all over the world.
The increase of obesity over the past 50 years has doubled or tripled in some countries.
One third of the population in the United States is obese (23 million) and patients seeking surgical treatment are becoming heavier each year.
With the initial empiric use of Intestinal Bypass surgery in 1954 by Kremen, Linner and Nelson at the University of Minnesota, severe obesity was identified as a disease that could be successfully treated.
Today, the acceptance of Bariatric Surgery is a proven surgical discipline. It hasn’t always been that way, and has gone through a long bumpy road in a very hostile environment. It has gone from acid critics and nonbelievers to a great demand of this kind of surgery all over the world.
The increase of obesity over the past 50 years has doubled or tripled in some countries.
One third of the population in the United States is obese (23 million) and patients seeking surgical treatment are becoming heavier each year.
