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 Bariatric Procedures
It has been clearly established and studied that the medical treatment (nonsurgical) to treat severe obesity has an aproximately 80% rate of failure. This means, that with treatments like diets, exercise, taking medicines, acupuncture or aesthetic surgery all effort to loose weight or mantain the ideal weight will fail.
For more than 50 years, different surgical techniques have been developed such as gastric bypass to try to give this disease a definitive solution. As for now gastric bypass is considered "The Gold Standard for severe obesity treatment" as is true this techique is hightly effective is also true that this technique can carry numerous complications.
There is today a technique that offers the same results as the gastric bypass but with less risk, this technique is called Sleeve Gastrectomy or gastric sleeve.
The Gastric Sleeve is a new procedure that induces weight loss by restricting food intake (a restrictive procedure), the patient is going to eat a smaller amount of food.
With this procedure, the surgeon removes approximately 60 percent of the stomach laparoscopically and with the help of staplers so that the stomach takes the shape of a tube or "sleeve", in such a way that the patient can continue eating, but in much smaller amount.
In addition of being restrictive this procedure has seen that the hormone that regulates the appetite, the ghrelina, diminishes, causing the patient to not have so many desires to be eat.
What Are the Advantages of the "Sleeve?"
The sleeve gastrectomy has a number of advantages over other bariatric procedures:
It is performed laparoscopically
It does not require disconnecting or reconnecting the intestines, or leaving any strange body in the interior of the body.
It is a technically simpler operation than the gastric bypass or the duodenal switch
It may be a safer operation for patients with a body mass index (BMI) more than 35, as patients with lower BMI as 32-25. To figure out your BMI, click here
The recovery is very fast, requires only 2-3 days of hospitalization, you can go back to work in one or two weeks. Definitively this is an excellent and novelty surgical technique in the definitive handling of the obesity, that Dr Lopez-Corvala recommends widely.
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