Gastric Bypass Surgery
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Gastric bypass is a surgery that is aimed at letting you slim down by changing your stomach and small intestine to get smaller, to enable you to feel full with less level of food. It shrinks your stomach so that you can not eat as much food when you used to take prior to surgery. With this surgery, the doctor will bypass or re-route an integral part of your digestive tract in order to avoid your body from absorbing the maximum amount of food as before. This therefore means that one\'s body will not get each of the calories through the food you\'re taking.\n\nThey may be 2 types of gastric bypass surgery open surgery and laparoscopy. Within an open surgery, the surgeon constitutes a big surgical cut to open up your belly. When the rope does the bypass by fixing your small intestine and stomach. For the laparoscopy surgery, the physician makes 4-6 cuts inside your belly and passes your camera through these cuts. Then connects the camera to a video monitor in order to look in your belly with the video monitor. While using the other cuts, then he does the bypass using thin surgical instruments. The results of the varieties of surgeries is similar whether or not it turned out open or laparoscopy surgery. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
