Patient selection

Explore this section for surgeons of obesity surgery at hospitals of Mumbai in India.

  • Patient with a BMI exceeds 35 to 40 kg per m2 and obesity-related comorbidities are potential candidates for surgical treatment of morbid obesity.
  • Surgery should be offered only to patients who are well informed and motivated and who are acceptable surgical risks; the patients should be evaluated preoperatively by a multidisciplinary team of nutritionists, nurse clinicians, internists, psychologists or psychiatrists, and surgeons.
  • Patients should be screened for common obesity-related conditions; tests to be considered include chest radiography, electrocardigraphy, cardiac stress testing, echocardiography, arterial blood gas and pulmonary function testing, polysomnography, lower extremity Doppler ultrasound, and glucose tolerance testing.
  • The most commonly performed restrictive procedure is vertical-banded gastoplasty, and the most commonly performed malbsorptive procedure is Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.

The charge for surgeons of obesity surgery at hospitals of Mumbai in India is very low when compared to that in many western countries.