{"id":9565,"date":"2017-03-09T08:24:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T08:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/weight-loss-surgery-for-500kg-woman-in-india\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T08:24:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T08:24:57","slug":"weight-loss-surgery-for-500kg-woman-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/weight-loss-surgery-for-500kg-woman-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight-loss surgery for 500kg woman in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty after the surgery\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/FD10\/production\/_95048746_91f7c2e8-4849-43e1-95f2-483063f23fe5.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Saifee Hospital<figcaption>Image caption                                      Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty after the surgery                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">An Egyptian woman, believed to be the world&#039;s heaviest at 500kg (1,102lb), has undergone weight reduction surgery in India.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson at Mumbai&#039;s Saifee Hospital said Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, 36, had lost 100kg after the operation.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are trying to get her fit enough to fly back to Egypt as soon as possible,&quot; the hospital said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Her family said she had not left her house for 25 years until she came to India in January on a chartered plane.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New facility for &#039;500kg&#039; woman&#039;s surgery<\/li>\n<li>Obesity boom &#039;fuels malnutrition rise&#039;<\/li>\n<li>India &#039;heaviest baby&#039; weighs 15lb<\/li>\n<li>Fat-shamed policeman thanks &#039;mean&#039; tweet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The spokesperson told the BBC that she was likely to lose more weight in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>The surgery was performed by a team of doctors led by bariatric surgeon, Dr Muffazal Lakdawala.<\/p>\n<p>Bariatric surgery, also known as weight loss surgery, is used as a last resort to treat people who are dangerously obese (having a body mass index of 40 or above or 35 plus other obesity-related health conditions).<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Saifee Hospital<figcaption>Image caption                                      Ms Abd El Aty before the surgery                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ms Abd El Aty&#039;s family says she weighed 5kg (11lb) at birth and was diagnosed with elephantiasis, a condition in which body parts swell due to a parasitic infection.<\/p>\n<p>By the time she was 11, her weight had risen sharply and she suffered a stroke which left her bedridden. <\/p>\n<p>She is cared for by her mother and sister.<\/p>\n<p>However, Dr Lakdawala told the BBC in December that he believed Ms Abd El Aty did not have elephantiasis but suffered from obesity-related lymphoedema which causes gigantic swelling of the legs.<\/p>\n<p>Bariatric surgery, also known as weight loss surgery, is used as a last resort to treat people who are dangerously obese and carrying an excessive amount of body fat.<\/p>\n<p>The two most common types of weight loss surgery are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Gastric band<\/strong>, where a band is used to reduce the size of the stomach so a smaller amount of food is required to make someone feel full <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Gastric bypass<\/strong>, where the digestive system is re-routed past most of the stomach so less food is digested to make someone feel full <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-39215235 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Saifee HospitalImage caption Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty after the surgery An Egyptian woman, believed to be the world&#039;s heaviest at 500kg (1,102lb), has undergone weight reduction surgery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}