Abstract
This review will define morbid obesity and relationship between morbid obesity and heart failure syndromes. It will delve into unique challenges facing patients with dual diagnoses of heart failure and morbid obesity and examine the data that obesity should be a target in the treatment of heart failure. Emerging literature has indicated the safety and efficacy of surgical weight loss in patients with heart failure. Furthermore, bariatric surgery with associated weight loss has been associated with improvements in heart failure symptoms and reverse remodeling on echocardiography. In patients with advanced heart failure, bariatric surgery has led to improvement in heart failure to obviate the need for cardiac transplantation or sufficient weight loss for cardiac transplant eligibility. In heart failure patients who are morbidly obese, treatment of obesity is an effective therapeutic target with a myriad of potential benefits.
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