Bariatric Surgery (Part 3)
- Posted by Avatar on April 30th, 2008 filed in Real World
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The next group of bariatric surgery, are the restrictive procedures which can have the stomach either permanently made smaller with stapes or have an elastic adjustable band attached to it allowing adjustment of the volume it can contain.
The last group, are the most successful for they combine the good points of all the previous procedures, making the stomach shorter and bypassing most of the intestines lessening the absorptive powers of the digestive tract. Gastric bypass surgery, has the stomach stapled making it smaller then the intestines is cut and attached to that smaller pouch. This has seen the most success for it still maintains the function of the whole digestive tract and just diminishes the ability of the organs within to absorb nutrients through volume reduction and bypassing most of the intestines through re-attachment.