Dr. Cristian Boru, general surgeon, specialised in minimally invasive obesity surgery

Dr. Cristian Boru is a lecturer and researcher at La Sapienza University in Rome and a surgeon at the Sfânta Maria Clinical Hospital in Bucharest and the Sant'Andrea Hospital in Rome. His areas of concern include the treatment of morbid obesity, surgery for diabetes and other metabolic diseases, gastrointestinal surgery and abdominal wall surgery.

Online consultation with dr. Cristian Boru, bariatric surgeon 

Topics covered:

• What is bariatric surgery and when do we need it?
• Obesity is a chronic disease. It is a disease that can return, therefore the treatment must be multidisciplinary and long-term;
• Bariatric surgery is the most effective method for patients with complicated obesity, especially for long-term results;
• Simple obesity does not really exist, the disease brings with it countless other diseases: hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, etc. All these cumulative conditions represent enormous health risk factors;
• Bariatric surgery can resolve associated pathologies, reduce obesity and change patients' lifestyles;
• Factors that predispose to obesity;
• Stages of obesity treatment;
• Recurrence of obesity is not the failure of bariatric surgery;
• Obesity surgery is the most effective way to lose weight, but to stay at a normal weight you need to change your lifestyle
• The classification of normal weight and obesity is done according to the body mass index (BMI
• Anti-obesity medication: pros and cons
• Obesity has a multidisciplinary treatment; as a surgeon, I take into account the feedback of the dietitian and the psychologist, but also of the other specialists involved
• Anti-diabetic injections have gained momentum and I want to draw attention to the side effects in people who do not have indications for this treatment
• Bariatric surgery is not cosmetic surgery; it is meant to treat obesity and related diseases. That is why in recent years it is no longer called obesity surgery, it is called metabolic surgery