The incidence of obesity is increasing each year, and is often accompanied by multi-system metabolic disorders, typically chronic diseases and multi-disease superposition disease states. Metabolic surgery is an important treatment option for patients with extreme obesity; however, surgical difficulties and perioperative complications are more serious in these patients. Therefore, there is an urgent need for a new comprehensive diagnosis and treatment model to reduce the weight of patients prior to surgery, subsequently reducing the risks of surgery.

This model combines traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), external TCM treatment, and health management with western technique of metabolic surgery. Obesity is recognized and treated by multidisciplinary, multi-channel, and multi-means, constituting an innovative diagnosis and treatment model of obesity in integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine. The application of this model in the treatment of a patient with extreme obesity having multiple systemic diseases is described herein.

The integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine obesity diagnosis and treatment model can be used for precise syndrome differentiation, individualized treatment, and follow-up management of patients with extreme obesity, with strong scalability and significant clinical efficacy.