Minimally invasive surgery. Life-changing results
If you're very overweight and can't lose pounds with a healthy diet and exercise, weight loss surgery might be an option for you. The surgery is usually for those with a body mass index (BMI) above 40 or those with a BMI of 35 or greater with serious co-morbidities. In general, this means men who are more than 100 pounds overweight and women who are more than 80 pounds overweight. If you are somewhat less overweight, surgery still might be an option if you suffer from life-threatening pulmonary problems like diabetes, heart disease or sleep apnea.
Weight loss surgery, also known as bariatric surgery, can promote weight loss by limiting the amount of food your stomach can hold, limiting calorie and nutrient absorption, or both. Some operations also restrict the amount of food you can digest. Restriction operations, such as vertical sleeve gastrectomy, are most often used for producing weight loss. These operations restrict food intake by making the stomach smaller and delaying the emptying of food from the stomach, causing the person to feel fuller faster. These restrictive operations lead to weight loss in almost all patients, but some weight regain occurs because individuals are unable to adjust their eating habits.
Our team will guide you through the surgical process and the recovery options available to maintain your weight loss. Shelby Baptist Medical Center's bariatric surgeons provide two bariatric surgical options, usually performed through minimally invasive
or laparoscopic techniques. Talk to your surgeon about which option is best for you.
Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
RYGB restricts food intake and decreases the absorption of food. The creation of a small pouch excludes most of the stomach, and other parts of the digestive tract are altered to re-route food directly into the small intestine.
Laparoscopic/Robotic Gastric Bypass
Laparoscopic/Robotic Gastric Bypass helps patients with morbid obesity lose significant amounts of weight without gaining it back. Most patients lose 70 to 80 percent of excess body weight and keep it off for more than five years. To be successful long-term,
patients must adhere to an active and healthy lifestyle after surgery.
Gastric Sleeve
A GS procedure is when a surgeon creates a small, sleeve-shaped stomach about the size of a banana. A GS process may be the first step in a two-part treatment when a gastric bypass is to be performed later.
Laparoscopic/Robotic Gastric Sleeve
Sleeve gastrectomy induces weight loss by restricting food intake. With this procedure, the surgeon removes approximately 75 to 80 percent of the stomach laparoscopically or robotically so that the stomach takes the shape of a tube or “sleeve.”
Gastric bypass results in weight loss by restricting food intake and altering the digestive process.
