TY - JOUR
T1 - Adverse psychologic reactions to ileal bypass surgery
AU - Wise, Thomas N.
PY - 1976/12
Y1 - 1976/12
N2 - Of 33 patients who underwent ileal bypass surgery for morbid obesity and were followed up with psychiatric interviews and consultation postsurgery, five appear to have had adverse psychologic sequeiae related to the procedure. The emotional problems of these five patients were in part related to or precipitated by their drastic weight loss after ideal bypass. In most cases, the patients generally had depressive symptoms and, in dynamic terms, were dependent individuals with lifelong problems in object relations. The coping styles demonstrated, while not rigorously classified as psychiatric illness, appeared to predispose them for certain difficulties even when weight had been lost. Ileal bypass surgery apparently is not psychologically innocuous as previously thought, and psychiatric follow-up of patients is indicated.
AB - Of 33 patients who underwent ileal bypass surgery for morbid obesity and were followed up with psychiatric interviews and consultation postsurgery, five appear to have had adverse psychologic sequeiae related to the procedure. The emotional problems of these five patients were in part related to or precipitated by their drastic weight loss after ideal bypass. In most cases, the patients generally had depressive symptoms and, in dynamic terms, were dependent individuals with lifelong problems in object relations. The coping styles demonstrated, while not rigorously classified as psychiatric illness, appeared to predispose them for certain difficulties even when weight had been lost. Ileal bypass surgery apparently is not psychologically innocuous as previously thought, and psychiatric follow-up of patients is indicated.
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U2 - 10.1097/00007611-197612000-00004
DO - 10.1097/00007611-197612000-00004
M3 - Article
C2 - 1019665
AN - SCOPUS:0017029117
SN - 0038-4348
VL - 69
SP - 1533
EP - 1535
JO - Southern medical journal
JF - Southern medical journal
IS - 12
ER -