2024-08-30 02:24:51
Just like the case of the Silk Road that, starting from China, ends in Bursa (Istanbul, Turkey) in the Middle Ages, after they traveled a long journey of dangers, journeys and difficulties, they reached the happy end , it is the case today. including obesity.
In the last decade, Turkey has become a pilgrimage (health trip) for obese patients, attracted by low cost and misleading advertisingWent to Istanbul to try to find a solution to a serious disease such as obesity, which came from there, through social networks and wrong advertising, they disguised as aesthetics and banal risk-free surgery, something that is not.
They have shown on social networks, people who When they arrive in Istanbul they are transported by limousines and luxury cars, with officials who wait on them and follow them, as if they were political authorities; to the hotel, where they were received and accommodated with all pomp and pageantry, but without any medical indication as to why they had gone there. Hours later, without doing the appropriate medical tests for that disease, they go to the hospital or center where they will be operated on.
When this question of the lack of previous studies is raised to the communication directors or the influencers of these companies, they always answer the same “it is the doctors who decide what tests must be done before surgery” or ” yes, it was “They did” and showed a chest x-ray, an electrocardiogram and a simple analysis.
Seeing or not knowing that half of the morbidly obese (those with more than 35 kilos excess) is diabetics and before understanding this problem must be studied in depth, since it is cause of serious complications, especially in many of those who work. And a third of obese people have heart disease (atrial dilation and ventricular hypertrophy) that can cause a heart attack, before, during or after surgery, if not checked by Doppler echocardiography, before surgery . Something they obviously don’t do or ignore.
So we can refer to a long list of diseases that are associated with obesity and that must be studied before doing any surgery.
It is an issue that television and the Spanish press have tried to remove under titles such as: “The cut dream of losing weight in Turkey”, “The death of a girl who underwent a tummy tuck in Istanbul has been focused on. the dangers of health tourism”, etc.
Dr. Ballesta Laparoscopic Center (CLB), one of the most famous in the world in this surgery, based in Madrid, Barcelona and also in Granada, received more than forty patients who were already treated in Istanbul with different problems and situations that make him come to Granada in search of a solution.
There is such a thing Monica’s caseas told to the national newspaper, on 03/21/2022. After the surgery done in Türkiye, he lost 60 kg and almost his life. Once in Spain, He underwent surgery three times to solve the complications caused by the first surgery performed in that country.
After her experience, first her husband and then her daughter, came straight to Granada to undergo obesity surgery, avoiding the Asian country.
The most common problem seen in patients undergoing surgery in Türkiye has been bad indication for surgeryinsufficient performance or poor performance. Or activities that are too difficult for obesity that the patient suffers from. Obesity treatment must be specific for each patient, based on their weight and diseases caused by obesity, such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, etc.
Just like when you go to the store to buy clothes or clothes, they don’t give everyone the same size, because it will be big for some and small for others; The same occurs with treatment or surgical procedures to correct obesity. It must be specific, appropriate and individual for each patient, something that is not thought of there, or they do it wrong, as happened with Mónica, among other patients.
We have also had cases where they said, even written in the report, that they did a surgery and when they have come with complications we have made sure that they have done another surgery that is different from the one that has been indicated and shown in the report. That is why it is very important and it is important to study the patient well to discover the problem before entering the operating room, so avoid surprises that are complicated or make the solution difficult.
Another problem we have seen is lack of training and experience on the party that did the surgery, since they did the work they wanted to do wrong; being the cause of complications, which we are forced to treat here; or the unfortunate case of a 17-year-old girl who bled to death because she did not know how to manage the wound during surgery.
we have seen patients with severe malnutrition for having done a procedure that has not been indicated. Or people who have gained weight again months or years after surgery, due to insufficient physical activity.
My warning is that when people have to enter the operating room, look for surgeons and hospitals that are recognized and prepared to solve any problem that arises and have the necessary equipment for this operation, as we done in Granada, today a landmark on the path of obesity surgery, either for patients from other parts of Spain, or for those who work in Istanbul.
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