The Department of General Surgery at Al Ahli Hospital participated in the fourth Annual Gulf Obesity Surgery Society conference held from November 30 to December 2 in Bahrain.
Dr Abdul Azim Hussain, chief of medical staff and Dr Bakhos al-Haddad, specialist general surgeon presented two studies, which were done on a large number of patients who were treated for obesity by endoscopic and laparoscopic surgical procedures.
These studies included assessment of age, gender, body mass index, co-morbidity, excess weight loss, possible complications of these procedures, and management of the complications.
Dr Hussain presented a scientific study about a new endoscopic technique for management of overweight and obesity.
This technique is called Pose Procedure and was implemented for the first time in Qatar at Al Ahli Hospital.
The aim of this study was to define the patients who are candidates to be treated by this technique to measure the excess weight loss, and to compare the results of this study with results of the international studies which were done on these kind of procedures. Dr al-Haddad presented a scientific research that was done on 463 patients who underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy for management of obesity at the Surgery Department of Al Ahli Hospital from January 2014 until December 2015.
The aim of this research was to determine the selection criteria of patients who were candidates for this procedure and to compare that criteria with the international standards, to show the distribution of this type of operation between men and women.
Participants from Al Ahli Hospital at the obesity surgery conference.
