GASTRIC BAND

Silicone device that is placed around the stomach creating a pouch (bag) and that is adjustable through a device that is placed under the skin.

Advantages: Minimum invasion, no stomach or bowel cuts, 40 min of surgery.

Disadvantages: 30% of excess weight loss, 20% of patients will sometimes require a new surgery due to complications of the band.

GASTRIC BYPASS

It is a surgery that combines food restriction and malabsorption of them, a gastric pouch (bag) with a capacity of 20 to 30 ml of food is formed and a bypass (bridge) a portion of intestine is made around 2 meters and connects to that gastric bag, so the person on the one hand, eat little because it has very little gastric capacity and on the other hand what you eat will marlboro see, so you lose weight.

Advantages: It reduces reflux in 100% of patients because since the stomach was sectioned the acid can not go up into the esophagus and hurt it. Loss for more than 60% of excess weight. Very safe, there are no devices like the band that give problems in the future.

GASTRIC BYPASS MINI

It is similar to the gastric bypass, the difference is that in the usual gastric bypass, 2 anastomoses or unions are made between the stomach and intestine and the jejunum with part of the ileum. In the Mini-bypass there is only 1 union, that is, it is less aggressive, and with weight loss similar to the normal bypass.

INTRAGASTRIC BALLOON

It is an inflatable silicone device, which is introduced by endoscopy through the mouth and left in the stomach, once there it is inflated to produce gastric restriction and the patient reaches an early satiety.

Advantages: Minimally invasive, outpatient procedure.

Disadvantages: It can only be left around 6 months before extracting it can migrate to the small intestine and produce obstruction in some cases. Basically it is indicated in the superobesus patient with many diseases that would not support surgery, so when putting the intragastric balloon, it is expected to lose weight, and reduce their risks, in a few months to operate it definitively with either a gastric sleeve, or a gastric bypass.

REVISIONS AND RE-OPERATIONS

If for some reason unfortunately you have problems with your previous obesity surgery and want to request a second, more complete and professional opinion in Bariatric Surgery of Mexico, we are the most viable option for overweight treatments and we have the most complete equipment for the treatment. resolution of your problem.

LAPAROSCOPIC OF UNIQUE INCISION

Bariatric surgery has been established as the best option of treatment for morbid obesity. In recent years single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) has emerged as another modality of carrying out the bariatric procedures.

Minimally invasive procedure in which the surgeon operates almost exclusively through a single entry point, typically the patient’s umbilicus. Special articulating instruments and access ports eliminate the need to place trocars externally for triangulation, thus allowing the creation of a small, solitary portal of entry into the abdomen.