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Recovering from Bariatric Surgery Patients spend an average of two to five days in the hospital following bariatric surgery, or longer if complications develop. Patients who undergo laparoscopic bariatric surgery usually have a shorter hospital stay. When you return to your hospital room after surgery, you will be closely monitored by…

Peri Operative Care Before any weight loss surgery, you should be prepared both physically and psychologically for the procedure and its outcomes.  Detailed instructions will be given to you for the days before surgery as well as the day of the surgery. You will be given specific instructions such as: Try…

Metabolic Surgery Diabetes being a medical disease, it was traditionally treated by diet and exercise with mild oral medicines. When this progressed, more drugs were added to control blood sugars; when this went on increasing, insulin injections were added. Diabetes is the cause of cardiac problems and kidney failure in…

Mini Gastric Bypass The Mini Gastric Bypass (MGB) is a short, simple, successful, reversible laparoscopic gastric bypass weight loss surgery. It has been recently renamed as One Anastomosis Gastric Bypass. The operation usually takes a shorter time, with lesser or similar hospital stay as regular bypass. Indications Indications are similar…

Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Gastric bypass, also known as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, is a bariatric or weight loss surgery for obese patients who have not been successful losing weight through dieting, exercise and medication. The surgery uses a combination of restrictive and mal-absorptive techniques to achieve a successful outcome. Staples are used to…

Sleeve Gastrectomy Sleeve gastrectomy, also referred to as vertical sleeve, gastric sleeve or tube gastrectomy, is a surgical procedure performed for the treatment of obesity. The procedure is a restrictive bariatric surgery to treat extremely obese patients with a high BMI of 40 and above. It encourages weight loss by…

Adjustable Gastric Banding Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding, commonly referred to as Lap Band surgery, is a type of minimally invasive weight loss surgery (bariatric surgery) that involves wrapping a band around a part of the stomach to reduce its size and limit the capacity of food intake. The band used…

Candidate for Bariatric Surgery Bariatric and Metabolic surgeries were considered as gastrointestinal surgeries aimed at improving and/ortreating clinically severe obesity and associated co-morbidities.Hence these were considered to belife saving and not cosmeticsurgeries. Currently accepted bariatric procedures fall in the category ofrestrictive,malabsorptive or a combination of the two. You could be…

Bariatric Surgery/ Weight Loss Surgery Bariatric or Weight Loss Surgery is an operation that helps you lose weight by making changes to your digestive system. Some types of bariatric surgeries make your stomach smaller, allowing you to eat and drink less at one time and making you feel full sooner.…

Preventing weight regain after obesity treatment Unfortunately, it’s common to regain weight no matter what obesity treatment methods you try. If you take weight-loss medications, you’ll probably regain weight when you stop taking them. You might even regain weight after weight-loss surgery if you continue to overeat or overindulge in high-calorie foods…