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Mar 15

Some Patients Too Obese For Transplant Surgery

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DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) -A growing number of patients are too obese to become candidates for life saving transplants. For them, desperate times call for drastic measures and a surgery that helps them take off the excess weight quickly but safely.

Kyle Spencer didnt always struggle withhis weight.

Actually when I was younger, I never reallybattled weight, he said.

Looking back at a picture of himself at age eight, he appears to have beenat a normal weight. Then, he became a teenager.

Yeah. 14, 15, 16. Yeah, he said.

By 18, he was obese, weighing 240 to 250 pounds.

By age 20, his kidneys he was diagnosed with End Stage Renal Failure. His kidneys didnt work anymore.

Its a condition his mother and grandmothersuffered from. Kyles been on dialysis.

I do that three times a week, in the morning, he said.

Kyle, whos 27 now, knows he needs to lose weight. So far, diets havent worked.

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