The Procedures In Gastric Banding And Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgeries

By Raymond Meyer


The bariatric type of a surgical operation is being performed to obese people. The two methods for bariatric surgeries are sleeve gastrectomy and the adjustable gastric banding. Based on some research, the two procedures can cause not only a long term loss of weight but also recovering diabetes, improving the cardiovascular risk factors, and reducing the mortality.

These two surgical methods can be only recommended for a person with obesity and those who have a 40 BMI or the body mass index. These methods are also for people with obesity having a 30 BMI or having some major medical conditions like having diabetes. And this would literally mean that people having a 30 or more of BMI become candidates for the gastric banding and sleeve gastrectomy surgical operations.

The laparoscopic adjustable gastric band or LAGB is commonly called as lap band. In this procedure, a silicone device will be placed around on the top part of the stomach for the treatment of obesity. The purpose if this is to slow the food consumption, thus, reducing the food amount to be consumed.

An individual may achieve and sustain his or her weight loss. It is done by selecting the right healthy food options, food limit intake, reduce appetite, and also by the food progress from the top to he bottom portion of stomach digestion. However, this may only be applied for people who have tried proper diet and proper exercise before the surgery.

According to some researches, this kind of surgery may not be a very easy option for people suffering from obesity. This is because it is a step which is very drastic and it also involves severe pain and risks just like any other types of surgical operations. However, it is less invasive and the person may only stay in the hospital for a short period of time after the operation. And other advantages of this is having smaller scars, faster recovery, and lesser pain compared to other procedures.

One last advantage is it does not involve staples and removing some parts of the stomach and also, the intestines are not moved. And since the materials used are biocompatible, it can remain in the body without casing any harm. However, not all obese patients are candidates to this. Those who are extremely obese and who already have undergone abdominal surgeries may be required to have open approach.

Another surgical method is sleeve gastrectomy where loss of weight is done by the removal of huge stomach parts along in the curvature. The result for this is reducing the normal stomach size by fifteen percent. And also, it results to a tube like or sleeve like structure.

The procedure is one option which is becoming very common to most people in New York. This involves the removal of stomach parts from antrum to fundus close to cardia. About 6 centimeters is being removed longitudinally. Approximately, 150 milliliters is the size of remaining stomach.

This surgery type may be applied to both the children and the adolescents. Studies have found out that it will cause a huge loss of weight to them between the ages 5 up to 21 years. This kind of surgery may cause some complications such as blood infections and clots, vomiting, esophageal pain, sleeve leaking, etc.




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