[Shunt operations of the small intestine in cases of extreme adiposity (author's transl)].

Report is made about 15 patients suffering from most serious adiposity; owing to complete inefficiency of conservative methods of therapy whatsoever, a shunt operation of the small intestine according to Payne Dewind, modified after Baden, was carried out in these patients. After a period of observation, weight decrease amounted to 40 to 50 p.c. of the starting weight. Side effects having manifested immediately after operation, such as weariness, giddy sensations, nausea, flatulence, sweating stages, etc., disappeared after about six months. The highly increased frequency of stools was reduced--after two years--to one to two defectations per day. Increased blood pressure values returned to normal.