This surgery is done by laparoscopy. Aided by a suture stapler, a resection of the most distendable part of the stomach is made.
Taking 80% out and leaving 20% of the stomach in the form of a thin gastric tube. With this, the patient can eat, but in smaller quantities.
In this procedure, besides being restrictive, it has been seen that the hormone that regulates appetite, the ghrelin, is noticeably reduced. This reduces the patient’s appetite.
The Gastric Sleeve has many additional advantages from other Bariatric Procedures:
It is an advanced and novel technique that we widely recommend for a definitive treatment of obesity. We have excellent results with a loss of excess weight in more than 80% of our patients.
