What is Bariatric Surgery
Gastric Bypass Surgery
Surgical weight loss is available for overweight or obese people with gastric bypass surgery. Gastric bypass surgery provides long-term weight loss with improved and resolved medical issues of Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea, GERD, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. When individuals are overweight, they face medical complications that can be resolved with the gastric [...]
Read more»Cost of Bariatric Surgery
Bariatric surgery is performed over 140,000 per year. The procedure is complex and costly yet that does not stop people from using the surgery to lose weight. The average cost for gastric bypass ranging between $18,000 and $35,000. The average cost for lap band surgery ranges between $17,000 and $30,000.
The high costs are related of [...]
Weight loss Bariatric Bypass Surgery: Stomach stapling
Gastric bypass surgery often referred to as bariatric surgery or a surgeon performs Roux-en-Y bypass surgery. The surgeon creates a pouch at the top section of the stomach then adds a bypass around the stomach to the small
intestines.The surgeon staples the top section of the stomach to seal it off from the other part of [...]
Bariatric Surgery Info: Roux-en-Y
Whether it is called bariatric surgery or weight loss surgery, it is a surgery performed on the stomach and intestines of individuals that are obese for the sole purpose of losing the excess weight. There are two common
procedures for the surgery called Roux-en-Y that closes off part of the stomach while bypassing parts of the [...]