Surgery for Morbid Obesity
Written by:¿: I am a candidate for surgery
?You are a candidate for surgery to meet the internationally accepted requirements that have a higher body mass index of 40 or over 35 diseases associated with obesity develops, obesity have a long evolution time and failed conventional measures adequately supervised by a medical endocrine. On the other hand, have no contraindication for surgery and this in an age range that you can greatly benefit from this treatment.
¿That surgical techniques exist
?There is no ideal technique nor a single surgical technique, although all we perform laparoscopic surgery using robotic assistance or support. There are 2 groups, restrictive techniques such as gastric tubulization intended the patient to lose weight by reducing the size of the stomach. In this way the patient eat less and lose weight without starving. The second group is that of mixed techniques like gastric bypass, these restrictive effect associated with malabsorptive effect by reducing the length of the intestine where food reaches. Thus get the patient to lose more weight than in the restrictive only.
¿cases in which surgery is indicated each
?We use a restrictive or mixed media as a function of the degree of obesity of the patient, associated pathology and food habit that has. Roughly in patients with little overweight and non- greedy or they like snacking you can opt for tecni -cas restrictive and more obese or with different dietary habits patients we should opt for more complex mixed media.
¿What results can be expected
?After selecting the technique properly every patient will achieve a weight loss of between 50% and 60% of excess weight in patients with restrictive techniques and between 70% and 80% with mixed media. These results can be improved if patients change their wicked properly preoperative eating habits and if rea -liza patient physical activity routinely after surgery.
