Weight Loss Surgery For Me
Weight loss surgery, otherwise called bariatric surgery, consists of a number of operative procedures that cause significant and long lasting weight loss.
Such procedures are broadly classified into two categories:
Such procedures are broadly classified into two categories:
1. Purely restrictive procedures - these are limited to reducing the size of the stomach which result in early fullness and a suppression of appetite. Examples include the adjustable gastric band ('Lap Band'), sleeve gastrectomy or the banded gastroplasties (no longer performed).
2. Combined restrctive and malabsorptive procedures - here the procedure not only reduces the size of the stomach, but the small intestinal loops are re-routed resulting in a varying degree of malabsorption. This combination results in a much more powerful operation that can markedly improve or even cure diabetes. Such procedures include the gastric bypass, duodenal switch and bilio-pancreatic diversion.
Weight loss surgery is not the same as liposuction! As a matter of fact, liposuction has few of the health benefits associated with weight loss surgery.
2. Combined restrctive and malabsorptive procedures - here the procedure not only reduces the size of the stomach, but the small intestinal loops are re-routed resulting in a varying degree of malabsorption. This combination results in a much more powerful operation that can markedly improve or even cure diabetes. Such procedures include the gastric bypass, duodenal switch and bilio-pancreatic diversion.
Weight loss surgery is not the same as liposuction! As a matter of fact, liposuction has few of the health benefits associated with weight loss surgery.
