Understanding the Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgery

  Sleeve Gastrectomy is one of the most-popular weight loss surgeries around these days. The laparoscopic bariatric surgery is restrictive in nature, wherein a surgeon operates on the stomach and reduces its size up to 85 per cent. Sleeve Gastrectomy is one of the most-popular weight loss surgeries around these days. The laparoscopic bariatric surgery is restrictive in nature, wherein a surgeon operates on the stomach and reduces its size up to 85 per cent. So, in the end, the surgery is all about reducing the size of the stomach significantly and making the person feel full with lesser food and fluid intake. So, one should go for the surgery only when he/she is ready to make radical changes to his/her food intake and lifestyle. This is important to ensure a successful long-term outcome.

Stomach has an innate ability to stretch to accommodate food, so the person has to be very careful with what you eat post-surgery. If the person doesn’t control his food intake, the surgery won’t be much of good.

Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy Weight Loss Surgery:

Surgeons are now using minimally invasive surgery extensively to treat their patients. In the Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgery, a few small incisions are made on the patient’s body. These incisions are then used to gain access to the stomach to operate on it. With the laparoscope, surgeons see the inside of the patient’s body on a large screen and thus, operate with quite precision.

There may come a time when surgeons may transform the laparoscopic surgery into an “open” one; this largely depends on the situation that time. A large part of the stomach is removed; the sides of the remaining stomach are then joined by staples, leaving the stomach much smaller and in a tubular shape.

Once the surgeons determine the stomach is stapled properly and no leakages happening, instruments are withdrawn and incisions are closed. So, this is how the surgery is performed.

However, sleeve gastrectomy is one of the several options that a qualified bariatric surgeon may consider for his/her patient; the other surgical options include Gastric Bypass, Gastric Banding and Biliopancreatic Diversion.

So, the person who’s gone through all the non-surgical treatments and hasn’t experienced much of benefits, a Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery may be considered. However, one should discuss this in detail with family and the doctor. A Laparoscopic bariatric surgery, just like any other surgery, may result in some complications; so, one should always discuss this with the doctor.

Though there are numerous hospitals in India which provide bariatric surgeries, you should go with the best one possible so as to make the most out of the surgery.

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