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Specializing in Laparoscopic Weight Loss Surgery
Description
Restrictive procedures aim to limit the amount of food one can eat in a given time. Examples include vertical banded gastroplasty (commonly called “stomach stapling”) and laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAP-BAND). Because of the limitations of vertical banded gastroplasty (ie., less weight loss, failures with later weight gain, and the need for repeat surgery) most experienced bariatric surgeons no longer perform vertical banded gastroplasty. However, recently the LAP-BAND technique has become a procedure of choice among many bariatric surgeons because of its safety profile, adjustability, and success rate.
Malabsorptive procedures include the jejuno-ileal bypass. Because this purely malabsorptive procedures can lead to severe nutritional deficiencies and metabolic abnormalities, it has generally been abandoned. Biliopancreatic Diversion and Duodenal Switch variants also rely mainly on malabsorption and again carry higher risks of nutritional deficiencies and metabolic abnormalitites.
The Roux-en-Y gastric bypass has been the most common type of weight-loss surgery over the past two or three decades. The main advantage of RYGB is that it encompasses advantages of both restrictive and malabsorptive procedures while minimizing or eliminating some of the disadvantages of both approaches.
Languages
English
Contact
- Johns Creek Surgery
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- Alpharetta GA
- United States 30022
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- +1.7707540950
