I read that sometimes the gall bladder is removed as part of the surgery. What determines whether I get to keep my gall bladder? Is it riskier if it's removed?
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A BMI of 60 or above is categorized as super morbid obesity. A laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in these patients is technically very difficult due to the size of the abdominal wall, the size of the intra-abdominal fat and the size of the liver. Due to these technical aspects of the...
We are very strict about smoking before surgery, plain and simple smoking has been shown to increase the incidence of pulmonary complications, postoperative infection rate, cardiovascular complications, healing time, just to name a few. We ask our patients to stop smoking at least one mon...
Mini gastric bypass should never be performed and has many long term complications. Laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery can be performed by an experienced bariatric surgeon in about an hour with low complication rates and is considered the gold standard for bariatric surgery. You...
