Bariatric Surgery Agawam MA

Gastric bypass is a form of weight loss surgery that is performed to minimize a person's food intake if you are at least 100 pounds overweight and have struggled to lose weight through diet and exercise with out any luck. Not only does Bariatric Surgery aide you in losing weight, but it can also enhance your appearance and improve your mobility, it has the capacity to improve your quality of life.

Bariatric surgery can also help to minimize the number and severity of health problems that you may be experiencing or are prone to suffer because of your weight, problems like diabetes, high blood pressure, or congestive heart failure.

Gastric bypass surgery is an intense procedure that requires general anesthesia so you will sleep through the entire process. You will be in surgery for 1 to 4 hours and will need to stay in the hospital for 1 to 7 days depending on how well you do.

Types of Gastric Bypass Available

• Roux-en-Y-gastric bypass

• Biliopancreatic diversion bypass

Roux-en-Y

Roux-en-Y , this procedure is used most frequently and it comes with the fewest complications because it does not remove any parts of the body.

The bypass procedure is performed through open surgery with one long incision. This can also be done laparoscopically. The laparoscopic technique requires a few smaller incisions instead of one long one. The laparoscopic tool is inserted into one of the small incisions providing your surgeon with a visual picture of your abdomen during the surgery. And the benefits of the laparoscopic procedure are less scarring and a quicker recovery period.

Biliopancreatic

The biliopancreatic diversion bypass is also performed through open surgery with one long incision. It is a complex surgery that removes parts of the stomach; the bypass is attached to the distal ileum. Because of the risk for nutritional deficiencies, this technique is not used very often.

For both procedures, in order to curb food intake, stapling a portion of the stomach creates a small pouch. Then, a Y-shaped part of the small intestine is attached to the pouch so that food can bypass the duodenum, as the bypass extends to the initial portion of the jejunum. Food intake is significantly restricted in both of these techniques while reducing your hunger at the same time to facilitate healthy weight loss. During the first year following your bypass you will notice the majority of your weight loss that will culminate by the end of the second year.

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