ELCE Obesity Surgery Hospital

Being obese puts you at risk for a number of preventable diseases and conditions, including heart disease.

Obesity may also take a toll on self-esteem and contribute to depression. One of the health risks associated with being overweight or obese is metabolic syndrome. Obesity can damage a person’s fertility. Carrying excess weight can make it difficult for a woman to become pregnant and for a man to produce adequate amounts of healthy sperm.

Obesity is spreading in many countries because of changes in the way we live, work, and play. Many of our jobs have become less physically demanding, but we seem to have less and less time available to devote to physical activity and exercise. We drive more and walk less. We spend many more hours in sitting in front of screens – watching television, playing video games, browsing the internet, or engaging with our mobile devices than doing some active work. Our habits around food have changed, too, as we eat bigger and bigger portions of less healthful foods.

Obesity treatment is multi-faceted and involves making changes in eating habits and activity levels. It also involves becoming more educated about the risks of obesity. A doctor needs to investigate potential risks, complications, and underlying health conditions that may require treatment.

Procedures for weight loss are either restrictive (sleeve gastrectomy) and /or malabsorptive (Gastric Bypass) based on changing the size of stomach or altering the food absorption pathway by bypassing. They restrict the intake of food and/or cause some of the food to be poorly digested and absorbed, and therefore eliminated in the stool.

Surgery has become an acceptable method of treatment for clinically severe obesity because it appears to be the only option which can provide long-term maintained weight loss in-patients with clinically severe obesity. In fact, the number of patients having surgical treatment of obesity has increased several folds in recent years. Stomach, or gastric operations, have been preformed since 1969.

Compared to Open surgeries Laparoscopic surgeries are been done with much small incisions.

So the Operative scars and post operative pain will be very little. Chances of getting Incisional Hernia is very less as well. Blood loss during the procedure will be very minimal. Since the operative wound is very small patient can return back to the routine in very few days.

Bariatric surgery, such as gastric bypass, and gastric sleeve work by changing the anatomy of your gastrointestinal tract (stomach and digestive system) or by causing different physiologic changes in your body that change your energy balance and fat metabolism.

Regardless of which bariatric surgery procedure you and your surgeon decide is best for you, it is important to remember that bariatric surgery is a ❛tool❜. Weight loss success also depends on many other important factors, such as nutrition, exercise, behavior modification, and more.

By changing your gastrointestinal anatomy, certain bariatric procedures affect the production of intestinal hormones in a way that reduces hunger and appetite and increases feelings of fullness (satiety). The end result is reduction in the desire to eat and in the frequency of eating. Interestingly, these surgically-induced changes in hormones are opposite to those produced by dietary weight loss. Let’s take a closer look at the differences in hormonal changes between surgery and dietary weight loss.

Dieting and Hormonal Changes Bariatric Surgery and Hormonal Changes. In dietary weight loss, energy expenditure is reduced to levels lower than would be predicted by weight loss and changes in body composition. This unbalanced change in energy can often lead to weight regain.

Hormonal changes following bariatric surgery improve weight loss by maintaining or enhancing energy expenditure (calories burned). In fact, some surgeries even increase energy expenditure relative to changes in body size. Thus, unlike dietary weight loss, surgical weight loss has a higher chance of lasting because an appropriate energy balance is created.

What are the other benefits one can get apart from weight reduction followed by weight reduction surgery?

Bariatric surgery is associated with massive weight-loss and improves, or even resolves (cures), obesity-related co-morbidities for the majority of patients. These co-morbidities include high blood pressure, sleep apnea, asthma and other obesity-related breathing disorders, arthritis, lipid (cholesterol) abnormalities, gastroesophageal reflux disease, fatty liver disease, venous stasis, urinary stress incontinence, pseudotumor cerebri, and more.

High Blood pressure, Diabetes, Dyslipidemia if not treated properly may lead to some of the following:

Due to low oxygen levels in blood People with obstructive sleep apnea are at risk for:

People with acid reflux are at risk for developing:

In 2001, experts at the National Cancer Institute concluded that several cancers are associated with obesity:

In 2003, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine estimated that obesity could account for:

Weight Reduction surgeries are elective and requires a team work concept. So that a patient gets comprehensive Education, treatment and follow up.

to ensure Recovery, Life style modification and readjustment to a newer life.