[Use of the method of food deprivation in preoperative care of patients with concomitant obesity]. / Primenenie metoda alimentarnoi deprivatsii dlia predoperatsionnoi podgotovki bol'nykh s soputstvuiushchim ozhireniem.

Alimentary deprivation was used in preoperative treatment of 86 surgical patients with obesity. Body mass was reduced by 10 to 20%, on an average, and the course of concomitant diseases was corrected. Findings of clinical, instrumental, and laboratory studies showed that alimentary deprivation was well tolerated by surgical patients, improving their resistance to surgical stress.

[Use of the therapeutic starvation method in preoperative care of patients with concomitant obesity]. / Primenenie metoda lechebnogo golodaniia v predoperatsionnoi podgotovkebol'nykh s soputstvuiushchim ozhireniem.

A method of therapeutic starvation was employed in preoperative preparation of 63 surgical patients with morbid obesity. The authors managed to achieve average reduction in body weight of the patients by 10-20% with correction of concomitant diseases. Good tolerance to therapeutic starvation of the patients and increase in their resistance to the operative stress were noted.