Bariatric surgery
Overview.
Gastric bypass and other weight loss surgeries are done to help you lose excess wiegth an reduce your rik of pontentially life-threatenign weigth -related health problems including:
*heart disease and stroke
*High blood pressure
*Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) or nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)
*Sleep apnea
*Type 2 diabetes
Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy
Gastric sleeve is a surgical procedure where about 80% of the stmach is removed leaving a long, tube-like pouch this smaller stomach can´t hold as much food. It also produces less of the appetite-regulation hormone ghrelin, which may less your desire to eat.
Advantege to this procedure includes significant weight loss and no rerouting of the intestine. Sleeve gastrectomy also requires a shorter hospital stay than most of other procedures.
Laparoscopic gastric bypass
(Roux-en-Y)
The mos common method of gastric bypass, not reversible. Decreasin the amount of food you can eat at one sitting and reducing absorption of nutrients.
The surgeon cuts across the top of your stomach, sealing it off from the rest of your stomach. The resulting pouch is about the size of a wallnut and can only hold about an ounce of food. Normally, your stomach can hold hold 3 pints of food.
Laparoscopic Revisional Surgery
For previous operated patients that did not achived the desired weight loss, or fot those patients who for a particular or spetial reasson gain back some weigth they lost . Every case is unique and requier on individual evaluation.
Laparoscopic Revisional Surgery
For previous operated patients that did not achived the desired weight loss, or fot those patients who for a particular or spetial reasson gain back some weigth they lost . Every case is unique and requier on individual evaluation.
Obalon
Obalon is he fistr and ONLY swallowable, FDA-approved baloon system for weight loss by taking up space in your stomach so you eat less. Three balloons are placed for a six month non surgical treatment, comned with a supervised nutrition and axercise program.
