Bariatric Surgery
Obesity affects your life?
You may qualify for an effective solution
Bariatric Surgery
Obesity affects your life?
You may qualify for an effective solution
Bariatric Surgery
Obesity affects your life?
You may qualify for an effective solution
What is Morbid Obesity?
Morbid Obesity is typically defined as being 100 or more pounds overweight. The most standard and reliable way to measure obesity is by the use of the body mass index or BMI. Body Mass Index represents the weight in kilograms divided by the height in meters, squared.
A person is considered overweight if their BMI is between 25 and 29.9; considered obese if their BMI is over 30, and morbidly obese with BMI above 40. To determine your BMI, use the calculator.
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Who is candidate for surgery?
Patients meeting the criteria of a BMI greater than 40 are candidates for weight loss surgery. Also those patients with a BMI of 35 or greater can be a candidate for surgery if they suffer from a co-morbid condition. The most typical co-morbid conditions include diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and obstructive sleep apnea.
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Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass
The gastric bypass has been performed in the United States for many years. It is the procedure that most other bariatric surgeries are compared to when discussing safety and effectiveness. The introduction of the laparoscopic approach has established this procedure as the gold standard and provided lower complication rates, shorter hospital stays and faster recovery.
We perform the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. In this procedure a little stomach pouch is created and disconnected from the rest of the stomach. At the same time, a new outlet is made for the pouch by attaching it further down the small intestine.
The unused part of the stomach and intestines continue producing digestive juices which empty into the part of the intestine the food is traveling through. This provides sufficient length for food and enzymes to mix together and essential nutrients to be absorbed but does not allow the same amount of nutrient absorption as a normal digestive tract. This is why the gastric bypass is called a restrictive and malabsorptive procedure.
Therefore, a gastric bypass restricts the amount of food that can be ingested and decreases the amount of high sugar, empty calories that can be absorbed. The overall result is an excellent weight loss procedure. Typically the gastric bypass will result in approximately an 80% loss of excess weight.
Sleeve Gastrectomy
The sleeve gastrectomy has gained popularity as a safe surgery with good long-term weight loss and low long term complication rates. It is a purely restrictive procedure with weight loss somewhat better than the lap band but less than the gastric bypass. Many insurance companies are currently covering it in addition to the gastric bypass and lap band. In our program we offer the Sleeve Gastrectomy to selected patients with BMI under 45 and have been satisfied with its results.
GastricPlication
This is the newest weight loss procedure. It is still considered experimental and long term results are in the balance. We offer the gastric placation to highly selected patients as long as they are aware of its experimental nature and lack of long-term results. It appears to be poised to become a very popular procedure due to its minimal risk of forthcoming complications. It has results similar to the sleeve gastrectomy.
To minimize risk and maximize results, weight loss procedures should be individualized depending on the patient.
We have a comprehensive weight loss surgery program which includes all the available operations and will work with you to choose the best one in your conditions! Beware of programs that can merely offer one procedure for all patients.
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We offer both, Sleeve Gastrectomy and Gastric Bypass, depending on the patient’s needs.
Our package includes a 23 hour stay in a Joint Commission Accredited Hospital. However, if the patient requires another day of stay or two, that can be arranged.
We see everyone in person for a one week follow-up visit with the doctor and the nutritionist. After this, the doctors’ visits are at one month, three months, six months, nine months and one year. If you are not in town these appointments can be virtual
Nutritionist visits could be done in person or over the phone and usually occur at one week, one month, 6 weeks, then can be customized to meet the patients needs as they advance their diet.
The average surgical time for a Gastric Bypass is one hour. The Sleeve Gastrectomy is somewhat shorter, about fifty minutes.
The Sleeve Gastrectomy is what we call a purely restrictive procedure. In other words, you will eat less food but you will continue to absorb the food and nutrients normally. That is why you tend to lose less weight than with a gastric Bypass.
The Gastric Bypass is a more aggressive surgery because there is a malabsorption component to the surgery, by bypassing a piece of the intestine sugar is not absorbed causing dumping syndrome(diahrrea) when you eat an excess of sugar. Total weight loss with the Gastric Bypass is significantly greater than with the Sleeve due to the malabsorption of sugar.
The Lap Band has been associated with long term problems such as erosion, slipped, dysphagia, reflux. Those problems are not present with the Sleeve, which results in a better weight loss than the Lap Band. So it is much better, and the surgeons have replaced the Lap Band with Sleeve, which is a more effective operation.
The Gastric Bypass is reversible because we have not removed any part of the anatomy, we have just bypassed a certain portion.
The Sleeve Gastrectomy is not reversable because we remove 80% of your stomach.
Both the Gastric Bypass and the Sleeve Gastrectomy are performed under general anesthesia. We have a very experienced anesthesia team that has done many operations.
We work with different medical finance companies to help you. We use CareCredit, Alphaeon Credit, Protapay, United Medical Credit. We also accept all major credit cards
Patients meeting the criteria of a BMI greater than 40 are candidates for weight loss surgery. Also those patients with a BMI of 35 or greater can be a candidate for surgery if they suffer from a co-morbid condition. The most typical co-morbid conditions include diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and obstructive sleep apnea.
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