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Sleeve gastrectomy is a new procedure that induces weight
loss by restricting food intake. With this procedure, the surgeon
removes approximately 60 percent of the stomach laparoscopically so
that the stomach takes the shape of a tube or "sleeve."
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Overview
This procedure is usually performed on superobese or high risk
patients with the intention of performing another surgery at a later
time. The second procedure can either be a gastric bypass or duodenal
switch.
This combined approach has
tremendously decreased the risk of weight loss surgery for specific
groups of patients, even when the risk of the two surgeries is added.
Most
patients can expect to lose 30 to 50% of their excess body weight over
a 6 - 12 month period with the sleeve gastrectomy alone. The timing of
the second procedure will vary according to the degree of weight loss,
typically 6 - 18 months.
Recovery is
rather quick, it only requires of 2 hospitalazion days and the patient
will be able to do his daily task round the 5 th and 7 th day after
surgery. |
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