Gastric Sleeve Surgery
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For more than 50 years, different surgical techniques have been developed such as gastric bypass to try to give this disease a definitive solution. 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. 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:
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 we recommend widely. |
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.