Bariatric Surgery - Obesity Surgery

INTRODUCTION

The obesity is now considered overweight in the first world countries as an epidemic, as people who suffer from this problem in United States is more than 40%, although there are no data to report to us if serious obesity in our country come to Ecuador such levels, so if you know that the consequences of this disease are equally serious in other countries, the life expectancy of an obese patient is significantly lower when compared with the normal population. Medical complications resulting from obesity such as diabetes, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, risk factors are well identified as the cause of death in these patients.

ABOUT U.S.

We are a group of medical specialists, we offer our services in the evaluation and treatment of disease which in recent years has presented affects a lot of people, metabolic syndrome as currently known to people who are overweight and because of this problem and as a consequence of this, suffer from other diseases that are referred to as "morbidities" such as high blood pressure (hypertension), diabetes, hypercholesterolemia (elevated values of blood cholesterol), sleep apnea, disorders osteomuscularers by their overweight have complications in any of your joints especially of the lower limbs, among others.

As we already mentioned the overweight may be accompanied or origin of some other diseases, for its severity can bring serious and sometimes fatal consequences, this is the basic reason for the treatment of this disease metabolic syndrome (overweight, obesity) should be managed by different medical specialists, ie disease management is a "multidisciplinary, so it is our responsibility to our patients have the highest degree of preparation, we have specialists in Nutrition, Cardiology, Psychiatry, Internal Medicine-Intensive Care, Anaesthesiology , Plastic Surgery, each of them is a medical professional who has expertise in their respective area.

The metabolic syndrome (obese, overweight) is driven from several medical approaches, it is necessary for a thorough evaluation based on the results of this assessment can provide the correct surgical treatment, not all overweight patients have the same treatment, there are international standards which apply to offer our patients the best medical option.
It is common that people only consider their weight to self rated as "fat", "obese" and so on. Currently governing medical evaluations with a nutritional analysis that departs from what is called the Body Mass Index, which is a relationship that, in the form of a mathematical formula that determines nutritional conditions are each of us, then add to these assessments blood analysis laboratory in which we look for any change or hormonal lipids that exist with overweight

SURGICAL TREATMENT

After a good valuation, we talk with each patient to explain treatment options exist, from the surgical point of view is to improve their quality of life with surgery, let us explain in short what options there are:

1. Restrictive Surgeries are called that diminishes the ability of the stomach to receive food, this technique is laparoscopic, the person needs to eat small amounts to be satisfied as to their anxiety by eating, ie is filled with little. Vertical Gastrectomy or Gastric Sleeve, Gastric Band

2. Malabsortivas Surgeries that are performed in a number of changes in the small intestine, cutting off segments of intestine and attaching them to each other, to bring the small intestine does not absorb a significant amount of food. Biliopancreatic bypass.

3. Surgeries that combine the above options that is restrictive and absorptive Mal, here are the Gastric Bypass, which creates a small gastric ball that is filled with little sense of who produces satiety and joints are made and cuts in the intestines to prevent an amount of food absorbed.

WHAT AFTER THE SURGERY

Most important for the excited one surgical procedure is the discipline that the patient has to follow the directions for their welfare, we follow our patients is to conduct rigorous assessments are periodic both the surgical group and by the medical nutritionist, situations such as fast entry to an exercise program and physical activity, the progression in the type of food until normal intake levels are basic, the patients operated on, if they follow the rules are listed in a few weeks with a diet As for quality, normal, and doing their work or other similarly as they did before surgery.

In short what we offer is a comprehensive treatment of the disease of overweight or metabolic syndrome, evaluated from different doctors and specialists providing the best medical treatment or if we need the surgical option.

We are aware that in cases where surgical treatment is appropriate is costly because these procedures are performed by laparoscopic surgery that involves technology, but we believe that the advantages can be achieved after an overweight will decrease costs complications of diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, myocardial infarction which can be fatal.

 

 

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