Gastric sleeve surgery is one of the most common obesity surgeries that contribute to weight loss, as it works to reduce the size of the stomach by removing a large part of it, about 70-85% of its size, and the remaining part of it becomes like a banana or a small tube, which Helps reduce the amount of food you can eat
The gastric sleeve operation is a final operation that cannot be reversed, but it is possible for the stomach to expand again with eating large quantities of food, but this is never required, as we aim to lose weight and get rid of obesity.
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Are you a candidate for gastric sleeve surgery?
Gastric sleeve surgery is suitable for obese people who want to lose weight quickly. Therefore, it is not suitable for people who are only a few kilograms above their ideal weight. You may be a candidate for gastric sleeve surgery if you:
- You are obese with a BMI of more than 40
- If your body index is higher than 35, but you suffer from some diseases associated with obesity, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, and others
- Your age ranges between 18 and 60 years
Learn about the advantages of gastric sleeve surgery
Gastric sleeve surgery has many advantages such as
- Help reduce heart disease and high blood pressure
- Reducing the risk of high cholesterol in the blood
- Contribute to recovery from type 2 diabetes
- Improving the quality of life by eliminating depression associated with obesity and other psychological problems
- Elimination of sleep apnea
- Reducing joint pain after losing excess weight, as excess weight puts a lot of pressure on the weight-bearing joints, and often causes chronic pain, joint damage, and may even cause knee roughness.
Laparoscopic gastric sleeve surgery experience in Egypt
The experiences of Laparoscopic gastric sleeve surgery in Egypt are numerous. People who underwent this experience consider it an experience that contributed greatly to losing weight. One of the people who underwent this operation says: I was suffering from a very large weight gain as I could not move easily, and I felt Roughness in the knee, I was even suffering from interruption during sleep, but some operation has improved my sleep a lot.
Does the gastric sleeve surgery have risks?
There may be some risks of gastric sleeve surgery:
- One of the most famous risks of the gastric sleeve surgery is the lack of nutrition and the main elements of the body, especially vitamins, so after the operation, you must take multivitamins daily
- With eating more food than required in the diet, you may suffer from vomiting and feeling nauseous
- An infection on the wound after the operation, which requires taking antibiotics to prevent it
- Anesthesia-related risks may occur
- dilation of the esophagus
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Stomach obstruction
