What is Gastric Sleeve Surgery?
The gastric sleeve procedure is a restrictive bariatric surgery that significantly reduces the size of your stomach and your appetite to encourage weight loss. It is an uncomplicated procedure with a shorter recovery time than others. This procedure physically restricts the amount of food you can eat by reducing the size of your stomach. It is a restrictive surgery that also limits the production of ghrelin, which contributes to a reduction in appetite. This allows patients to feel satisfied with less food, and thus encourages portion control.
Gastric Sleeve Key Benefits
A gastric sleeve procedure, conducted with precision, can result in the following clinical benefits
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LIMARP offers personalized gastric sleeve procedures according to the patient’s needs. LIMARP is certified as a Center of Excellence and takes pride in its state-of-the-art facilities and high quality service, a team of highly specialized medical personnel will cater to you during your stay.
At least 2 million people visit Tijuana annually to receive medical treatment, its close proximity to San Diego makes it the perfect city for patients to travel and get high quality medical service, and a more accessible cost for your surgery.
Mexico is known for its state-of-the-art facilities in medicine and high quality service. Medical tourism is blooming in the northwest region of the country where prestigious medical personnel are located.
Unlike the gastric bypass which takes around 2 or 3 hours, a gastric sleeve surgery takes around 60 to 90 minutes; however, the patients may expect a post-operative stay of 1 or 2 days in the hospital’s recovery room.
The gastric sleeve surgery removes around 80% of the stomach and creates a smaller sleeve-shaped stomach. The lap band is another type of restrictive surgery, where an adjustable band is placed on top of the portion of the stomach, leaving only a small section to hold food.
The gastric sleeve surgery is meant for patients with a BMI higher than 40, nonetheless, people with a BMI ranging between 35 and 40 are also eligible if they suffer serious weight-related health conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea, hypertension, high cholesterol, heart disease or fatty liver disease.
The gastric sleeve surgery reduces the capacity of the stomach, helping to lower the intake of food to small portions by making the patient feel fuller and satisfied sooner. A new healthy diet is important to follow in order to maintain results, to achieve the best benefits from the surgery, the patient will be working with a LIMARP nutritionist.
For monitoring purposes, the patient will stay in the hospital for one or two days, if necessary an additional one or two days. It takes about 2 or 3 weeks for the incisions to heal, nonetheless, the staple line takes around 6 to 8 weeks, during that time it’s imperative for the patient to rest and limit overall activity to avoid disrupting the recovery process.
If you are interested in gastric sleeve surgery as a weight loss solution and want to know more about the costs, please contact our offline office or call (619) 270-8823 to talk to a member of our team.
The gastric sleeve involves reducing the size of the stomach by removing roughly around 80% of it, and creates a smaller sleeve-shaped stomach to physically restrict the amount of food eaten. The gastric bypass reroutes the stomach, limiting the calorie consumption.
