698-pound man dies after stomach surgery (AP)

Doctors and nurses stand beside obesity patient Carlos Marroquin during a gastric bypass surgery in Guatemala City, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007. Marroquin died hours after the surgery of a heart attack. (AP Photo//Herlindo Zet/Siglo 21)AP - A man who weighed 698 pounds died Friday of heart failure after undergoing an operation to remove 80 percent of his stomach in a desperate effort to reduce his weight.

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