Gastric Sleeve Surgery

Gastric sleeve surgery is an efficient and safe weight-loss procedure with lifelong results. This procedure helps decrease hunger and appetite by decreasing levels of ghrelin hormone, while simultaneously improving blood sugar regulation and managing.

Your doctor will make several small incisions in your abdomen and insert a laparoscope equipped with camera and surgical tools during this surgery.

What is gastric sleeve surgery?

Weight loss surgery may be the solution for people who have tried other means without success; or those suffering from conditions made worse by obesity such as high blood pressure or diabetes.

Under gastric sleeve surgery, your surgeon removes part of your stomach to reduce its capacity, thus restricting how much food can be eaten at once and increasing feelings of fullness more quickly. Furthermore, it lowers ghrelin production – a hormone which signals your brain when hunger strikes – significantly.

After surgery, you’ll need to follow a healthy diet with regular physical activity, provided by your physician with nutritional guidance and other resources. In addition, lifelong vitamin and supplement use is required – typically most people who undergo gastric sleeve surgery lose around 70-80% of excess weight within two years.

How is gastric sleeve surgery done?

GSS is performed laparoscopically, meaning your surgeon uses small cameras and surgical tools through small cuts in your abdomen to perform it. You will be given general anesthesia so you don’t feel anything during the operation.

After the procedure, your stomach pouch will become much smaller while maintaining its digestive function. Food will still enter through your stomach pouch before traveling down into the later portion of small intestine to mix with digestive juices – helping decrease hunger hormones while improving weight loss, satiety and improving diabetes or other medical conditions.

Before having surgery, a two-week liquid diet will be implemented to prepare both your stomach and body for the procedure. Your surgeon will give you specific guidelines that must be observed after your procedure, such as eating healthily and exercising regularly – you’ll also undergo regular check-ups so as to assess weight loss, health and safety.

What are the risks of gastric sleeve surgery?

Gastric sleeve surgery is generally safe, although there may be risks involved, including bleeding and leakage from staple lines, infection and adverse reactions from anesthesia – although these occur rarely.

Regaining weight after bariatric surgery can be avoided through long-term changes to diet and lifestyle. You might require another form of bariatric surgery should your stomach expand unexpectedly or you develop complications related to it.

People undergoing must abide by stringent dietary requirements for life after the operation. Within one week of having had gastric sleeve surgery, they can only consume sugar-free noncarbonated liquids before gradually progressing onto soft foods and then solids. Sometimes patients can experience acid reflux (heartburn) and nausea due to scar tissue after the surgery, however these symptoms are generally manageable with medication. You may also need daily vitamin and mineral supplementations while potentially needing your gallbladder removed should gallstones develop.

What are the benefits of gastric sleeve surgery?

Sleeve surgery offers effective and safe weight loss with few risks or complications, while also improving many associated health issues like high blood pressure, diabetes and sleep apnea.

Studies show that patients undergoing sleeve surgery typically lose between 25-30% of excess weight within two years after surgery.

A sleeve procedure isn’t permanent – it may expand over time if a patient continues to consume too many calories – but when combined with changes to eating habits and regular exercise it has proven itself successful in producing long-term results for thousands of people worldwide, helping to reverse obesity and its related diseases.