Safer Forms of Bariatric Surgery
In the quest of safer forms of surgery to help people control their weight, bariatric surgeons have come up with two revolutionary types of surgery in the past few years.
With half of the American population overweight, and one in four or less people said to be clinically obese, there is no wonder that there is such rapid progress in the field of bariatric surgery.
Since operations like the gastric bypass procedure are among the most popular surgical procedures in the United States today, it is not surprising that a lot of innovation is happening and better ways of accomplishing the goals of these procedures are being found.
The first new type of surgical procedure that is gaining popularity in the last few years is an update to the simple gastrectomy called the Mico sleeve gastrectomy.
In gastrectomy, the doctor cuts the patient's stomach open and removes up to sixty percent of the stomach tissue from the body.
He or she then fashions the rest of the tissue into a much smaller stomach by moulding and shaping it with stitches.
In micro sleeve gastrectomy, however, up to seventy five percent or so of the stomach tissue is removed and the remaining tissue is stitched into an almost tubular somewhat banana shaped organ in order to achieve a drastic reduction in the size of the organ.
This is a much more effective operation than the regular gastrectomy as the effective size of the stomach is reduced much more drastically and when combined with an aggressive Roux-en-Y procedure it ensures much more rapid weight loss for the patient post- surgery.
In a gastric sleeve plication procedure, there is no cutting open of the stomach which is the largest advantage of this operation.
No cutting open of the stomach means that there is a much shorter recuperation time.
The surgery itself can be performed in as little as fifty minutes, and the patient has to spend much less time on a bariatric liquid diet.
There is also no chance of leakage of food matter from the stomach or the gastric tract into the patient's abdomen which would be a very serious and disastrous ill- effect of the surgery.
The stomach is simply folded along the vertical axis and the stitched together in this folded shape.
Two rows of stitching hold the fold securely, thus reducing the size of the stomach without any cutting or any removal of tissue form the patient's body.
With half of the American population overweight, and one in four or less people said to be clinically obese, there is no wonder that there is such rapid progress in the field of bariatric surgery.
Since operations like the gastric bypass procedure are among the most popular surgical procedures in the United States today, it is not surprising that a lot of innovation is happening and better ways of accomplishing the goals of these procedures are being found.
The first new type of surgical procedure that is gaining popularity in the last few years is an update to the simple gastrectomy called the Mico sleeve gastrectomy.
In gastrectomy, the doctor cuts the patient's stomach open and removes up to sixty percent of the stomach tissue from the body.
He or she then fashions the rest of the tissue into a much smaller stomach by moulding and shaping it with stitches.
In micro sleeve gastrectomy, however, up to seventy five percent or so of the stomach tissue is removed and the remaining tissue is stitched into an almost tubular somewhat banana shaped organ in order to achieve a drastic reduction in the size of the organ.
This is a much more effective operation than the regular gastrectomy as the effective size of the stomach is reduced much more drastically and when combined with an aggressive Roux-en-Y procedure it ensures much more rapid weight loss for the patient post- surgery.
In a gastric sleeve plication procedure, there is no cutting open of the stomach which is the largest advantage of this operation.
No cutting open of the stomach means that there is a much shorter recuperation time.
The surgery itself can be performed in as little as fifty minutes, and the patient has to spend much less time on a bariatric liquid diet.
There is also no chance of leakage of food matter from the stomach or the gastric tract into the patient's abdomen which would be a very serious and disastrous ill- effect of the surgery.
The stomach is simply folded along the vertical axis and the stitched together in this folded shape.
Two rows of stitching hold the fold securely, thus reducing the size of the stomach without any cutting or any removal of tissue form the patient's body.
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