A morbidly obese 2-year-old Saudi Arabia national with a BMI of 41 was recognized as the youngest obese patient to undergo gastric bypass, Fox News reported Thursday.

A morbidly obese toddler, weighing 73 pounds and with a BMI of 41, underwent bariatric surgery after doctors noticed that he was suffering from sleep apnea, which could lead to his untimely demise.

According to a report published in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports, the morbidly obese 2-year-old had undergone two weight-loss diet attempts, but failed unknowingly, leading to the medics decision to have him undergo a bariatric surgery.

Gawker reported that his parents took him first to an endocrinologist while he was still 14-months-old and weighed 46 lbs., and although his tests were all normal, the doctor prescribed him with a weight-loss plan, which somehow failed, making the obese child more obese after gaining 18 pounds in the process.

The Prince Sultan Military Medical City at Riyadh doctors were unsure what really happened, but they claimed that it must have been due certain circumstances involving the parents' socio-cultural habits as well as the lack of calorie-calculation practice.

When the toddler was referred to an obesity clinic he already weighed 65 pounds, and doctors noted that he was already experiencing severe sleep apnea and "bowing of the legs."

They then subjected him to another diet, which also failed, adding more weight to the 2-year-old, who was said to weigh 72 lbs. at 30-months-old. It was only then that the doctors finally decided to perform a Laparascopic Sleeve Gastrectomy, according to Gawker.

The surgery involved the removal of the outer margin of the morbidly obese 2-year-old's stomach to hamper him from taking in too much food, leaving a sleeve of stomach that is only the size and shape of an average banana.

"To our knowledge LSG has never been tried in very young age children," the surgeons said in their report. "We present here probably the first case report of the successful management of a two year old morbidly obese boy."

Nevertheless, the irreversible surgery proved to be successful two months later, when the boy lost roughly 15 percent of his body weight. Two years after the 2010 surgery, the morbidly obese child's weight had fallen to 53 pounds from 73 pounds. His BMI was finally within normal range at 24.

Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute Obesity Expert Adjunct Professor Paul Zimmett said the case was quite "shocking" and "very unusual."

"It's rather like the other day when we saw one of our spacecrafts going out of our solar system into the dark regions of space, it's going into unknown territory," Zimmett said. "We have no idea what effect this may have on the child's growth and unless he has proper follow up he may suffer vitamin deficiencies."