Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in a 2-year-old child with morbid obesity: A case report with a 2-year follow-up

Vivek Bindal; Shailesh Gupta; Dhananjay Pandey; Tushar Goel

doi:10.4103/jmas.jmas_170_23

Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in a 2-year-old child with morbid obesity: A case report with a 2-year follow-up

J Minim Access Surg. 2024 Jul 30;20(4):456-459. doi: 10.4103/jmas.jmas_170_23. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Vivek Bindal¹, Shailesh Gupta, Dhananjay Pandey, Tushar Goel

Affiliation

¹ Department of Minimal Access, Bariatric and Robotic Surgery, Max Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi, India.

Abstract

Morbid obesity in infancy or early childhood is a challenging disease to manage. Here, we present the case report of the successful management of a 2-year-old girl child with morbidly obesity who was bedridden and had sleep apnoea and underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. Bariatric surgery in this age group comes with a lot of decision-making challenges and technical and ethical considerations, and literature is scant on paediatric bariatric surgery. We describe the case and associated challenges in detail in this report.