WHAT IS?​

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Also known as vertical gastrectomy or simply the "sleeve" is a procedure that removes 75% to 80% of the stomach to leave a long tubular stomach.

As a requirement, the patient must be between 18 and 60 years old, although it is also an ideal technique for some adolescents than in special cases; You must not have psychiatric illnesses or be addicted to alcohol or drugs.

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This technique does not have aesthetic purposes, since this surgery is only performed by medical indication, since its purpose is to remove the patient from a range of severe and / or morbid obesity that results in a poor quality of life and puts her in risk.

This procedure also helps to cure or improve a number of metabolic diseases. For example, an obese diabetic who solves the problem of being overweight can end his diabetes and stop taking medications or insulin. The same occurs with high blood pressure and sleep apnea, conditions that improve between 90 and 80% respectively.

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When is it recommended to do it?

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This technique can be used both in patients with extreme obesity and in those who show lower degrees of obesity. Possible candidates for this operation are those who have a body mass index (BMI) greater than 40. That is, it is recommended for people over 40 kilos overweight. Also in those who have a BMI greater than 30 and who have an associated disease, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, sleep apnea or metabolic syndrome.

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Advantages

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1. Loss of up to 60-70% of excess weight

2. Low rate of medical complications

3. Rapid recovery after the intervention

4. The stomach never returns to its previous capacity

5. It is a minimally invasive surgery

6. No foreign bodies are introduced into the body that can be rejected by it

7. Does not require surgical maintenance

8. It seeks a substantial improvement of pathologies related to obesity

9. It is a bariatric surgery amply tested

10. Provides psychological well-being to patients thanks to its results

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