Gastric Sleeve Surgery

What is gastric sleeve surgery?

Due to its safety, success rate and simplicity to perform, gastric sleeve surgery has become one of the most popular bariatric surgeries. The process consists of reducing up to 80% of the patient’s stomach size, which allows the body to satisfy hunger with a significantly less amount of food.

As one of the most recent bariatric techniques and backed up with almost zero margins of risks, gastric sleeve surgery comes to be one of the most trusted solutions when it comes to treating severe obese patient cases compared to the rest of weight-loss surgery treatments.

Unlike other procedures, the gastric sleeve is a less aggressive method that doesn’t compromise the body’s natural processes by allowing the remaining stomach tissue to work as supposed when processing and absorbing food and its nutrients.

Gastric sleeve surgery process

To perform this surgery the patient must be under general anesthesia, which is administered by a professional doctor. With the patient laying on his back, the medical team will perform a laparoscopic procedure by making a few small incisions in the subject’s abdomen. Those will allow the introduction of a camera and the surgery-required equipment to easily remove the now unneeded part of the stomach.

Recovery and healing

After the procedure, all gastric sleeve patients must follow the doctor’s prescriptions, since that will assure and boost the body’s natural healing capabilities. Those directions may include temporal physical restrictions and special diet indications in order to meet the organs’ recovery expectations. Even though most of the patients can gradually resume their daily activities about 2-3 weeks after the surgery, it is mandatory to follow the instructions given by the doctors and to monitor with care the patients’ health by being aware of any odd conditions.
It will be by the assigned doctor to determine how much and when to resume any sports activities, not only about the ones the patient had before the procedure but also about any exercises given to help the body heal.

Benefits:

• Very low-risk surgery compared to other bariatric procedures
• Up to 70% loss of the exceeded weight
• The gastric sleeve doesn’t alter the digestive process
• The process can be converted into a gastric bypass if required to lose more weight

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