Bariatric Surgery for Obese and Diabetic Patients

Bariatric Surgery is an option for those who are obese and have not been able to lose enough weight by other methods or have serious obesity-related health problems. The surgery makes the stomach smaller and can alter the small intestine.

Dr. P Radha Krishna is one of the best bariatric surgeons in Chennai. He is a full-time surgical gastroenterologist and laparoscopic surgeon. He consults at SIMS at Chennai. His out of station consultation places includes Guwahati and Dibrugarh.

Types of Bariatric Surgery

There are mainly three types of bariatric operations – gastric band, gastric bypass and gastric sleeve.

Gastric Band: This surgery places an adjustable band around the upper portion of the stomach and hence create a small stomach pouch above the band. The rest of the stomach is below the band

Gastric Bypass: This procedure is carried out with two components. First, a tubular stomach pouch is created by removing a portion of the stomach, similar to the sleeve gastrectomy. Next, a large portion of the small intestine is bypassed.

Gastric Sleeve: The laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy commonly known as the sleeve is performed by removing approximately 80 percent of the stomach. The remaining stomach is a tubular pouch that resembles a banana.

Bariatric surgery benefits

Health problems related to obesity such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, unhealthy cholesterol levels and sleep apnea can be reduced with the help of this sugery. The quality of life and physical function can be improved by undergoing bariatric surgery.

Potential candidates for Bariatric Surgery

Bariatric surgery may be an option for adults and teens who have severe obesity and obesity-related health problems such as type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea, high blood pressure or heart disease.

Obese people tend to withdraw themselves from the social world and mostly lack confidence at all times due to their physical state. Dr. P. Radhakrisha has transformed the lives of many people by making them confident. He has performed numerous bariatric surgeries. He is one of the leading bariatric surgeons in Chennai.

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Bariatric Surgery : When workouts doesn't help you to reduce your weight

What is bariatric surgery?

Bariatric surgery is an option for people who have a body mass index (BMI) above 40 or between 35 to 40 and also for curing health problems like type 2 diabetes or heart disease. Through bariartric surgery, weight loss is achieved by reducing the size of the stomach with a gastric band or through removal of a portion of the stomach.

Types of Bariatric Surgery

The most common Bariatric Surgery procedures are the following:

Gastric Bypass

• The food consumption after the surgery will be restricted to a limit
• Controlling of gut hormones that results in reducing appetite and enhance satiety

Sleeve Gastrectomy

• No re-routing of the food stream or use of foreign objects is required
• Requires only short stay at hospital

Adjustable Gastric Band

• Involves no cutting of the stomach or rerouting of the intestines
• Is reversible and adjustable
• Has lowest rate of vitamin and mineral deficiencies
• Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch
• Reduces the absorption of fat by 70%
• Most affective against diabetes
• Results in greater weight loss

Benefits of bariatric surgery

• Eliminate obstructive sleep apnea
• Improve fertility
• Depression Relief
• Long-term remission for type 2 diabetes.
• Improved cardiovascular health
• Relief for Joint pain 
• Alleviate other medical conditions

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Make It Up With Bariatric Surgery

Bariatric surgery is a weight loss surgery adopted by people suffering from obesity conditions. This weight loss surgery is carried out by, reducing the stomach size, removing a portion of stomach, re-routing the small intestine to small stomach pouch.

The serious condition of obesity, which is a chronic disorder, is hard to be treated with diet control and exercise alone. Bariatric surgery is an option for those who are not losing their weight by any other means or to those who are at serious medical condition due to overweight. Studies show that this surgery helps to lose of weight for a significantly long term and helps the people to recover from diabetes and cardiovascular risk factor, reducing the mortality to a greater extend.

Types of Bariatric Surgery:

There are four types of Bariatric surgeries to reduce the overweight condition.

• Adjustable Gastric Band
• Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
• Biliopancreatic Diversion with a Duodenal Switch
• Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy

Each one has its own benefit and risks. Doctor and patient together have to take the effort to choose the apt surgery among these, depending upon the health as well as other condition of the patients.

a) Adjustable Gastric Band:

Here a small bracelet type band is placed at the upper part of the stomach to which the throat opens to. A reduced opening is provided so that only less food is intaken through the throat. A balloon is placed inside the band which gets inflated and deflated with the amount of saline solution required to meet the needs of the patients.

b) Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy:

This is an emerging surgical procedure where almost 85% of stomach is being removed and only a small sleeve shape of stomach remains. This sleeve shaped stomach is closed with staples. This is an irreversible process as a greater part of stomach is removed from the body.

c) Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass:

Here in this surgery, the upper portion of the stomach is divided from the rest of the stomach portion and this portion is connected to the bottom part of the small intestine. This helps in reduced intake of food as the stomach portion is very small. A little amount of intake will give us a feeling of fullness and only less calorie is absorbed from the food.

d) Biliopancreatic Diversion with a Duodenal Switch:

This surgery deals with the removal of a small part of stomach and the first portion of small intestine is divided at the outlet of stomach. This distal segment of small intestine is then connected to the new reduced stomach.

Advantages of Bariatric Surgery:

• Reduces the food amount that stomach can hold.
• Excess weight loss of 40-50% approximately.
• Almost all surgeries are reversible and adjustable.
• Lower risk of vitamin and mineral deficiency.
• Produces significant long term weight loss.
• Reduces absorption of fat by 70% or more.

The Gastro Surgeon gives you the best bariatric surgery in Chennai, helping you resolve your obesity and overweight and keeping you out of reach of heart diseases or diabetes. Our skilled and experienced surgeons are at your service aiming at your betterment.

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