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Liposuction to Help COPD?
Will my health insurance pay for Liposuction? I am a man with COPD. I am also fat, but only around my stomach, this is inherited, my father and brother have the same look. I look pregnant, with a big round stomach sticking out. I can not breath if I bend over or lay on my stomach. Will insurance pay for part of liposuction to reduce my huge stomach so I can breath better?
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FATFREDO
in MI
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Liposuction is not designed to remove fat from behind the stomach's muscle wall
The type of build you are describing "the berr belly" is from visceral fat, that is, fat that is around the intestines, and situated behind the muscle wall. This is an area that the liposuction cannula does not penetrate.
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Insurance companies do NOT pay for Cosmetic Surgery
COPD is a disease related to lung destruction and a critical decrease in the lung absorptive surfaces. It is managed medically except for a few cases in which patients are candidates to specific lung surgery procedures which remove large areas of damaged lung areas in an effort to stop blood from needlessly flowing there. The surgery then directs the flow through the less damaged areas for a better absorption of oxygen. Liposuction does NOT figure anywhere in the surgical...
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COPD and liposuction
WOw! Wouldn't that be great if liposuction could cure COPD. Unfortunately, COPD is a disease of the lungs and liposuction only removes subcutaneous body fat. I highly doubt that it would have any affect on your lung capacity.
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Liposuction to help COPD
As the previous expert posters have stated so "nicely" NO! I will be more direct, your medical issue is not the fat but the lung disease. Lose weight, liposuction is for contouring not weight loss!
From MIAMI Dr. B
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Liposuction for COPD?
As Dr. Aldea has said, there is no role for liposuction in your care. If you have a big belly that is hurting your breathing, it is from fat inside the belly around the intestines, and not from fat just under the skin.
The fat inside the abdomen only responds to weight loss and if you can't do this the natural way with diet and exercise, perhaps a lap band might be possible. You should visit surgeons who specialize in "bariatric" surgery for their...
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