Surgery for morbid obesity is considered when other treatments have failed a number of procedures are available but the effects of these surgical procedures compared with medical management and with each other are uncertain objectives to assess the effects of surgery for morbid obesity. The surgical treatment of morbid obesity has undergone astonishing growth since its inception thirty years ago the medical profession has long been aware of the discouraging intractability of morbid obesity to all forms of conservative management and it is only recently that physicians have come to realize that surgery can provide very real palliation for the morbidly obese patient surgery does not attack the underlying etiology of morbid obesity whatever it may be but exerts its effect . Morbid obesity surgery bariatric surgery options for the obese bariatric surgery options for the obese morbid obesity surgery morbid obesity surgery includes restrictive and definition of morbid obesity the world health organization who defines morbid obesity as having a bmi body . Surgical intervention is a safe and effective means of delivering marked long term weight reduction this article compares and contrasts the options available for surgical treatment of morbid obesity based on a review of the current literature bmi body mass index