What is Mini Gastric Bypass Surgery?
Gastric bypass surgery is essentially a classification of surgical procedures that are administered mainly as treatment for morbid obesity. Due to health complications, doctors recommend surgery to patients so they can lose the excess fat in the soonest possible time. Surgery is later complemented by a change in lifestyle – i.e. changes in diet and incorporating a fitness program to facilitate further weight loss.
This surgical procedure takes on several different forms. Mini gastric bypass surgery is one of the least invasive types under this classification. It only takes an average of 45 minutes to complete the whole procedure. Also known as loop gastric bypass, this procedure is also the least expensive. For this, if nothing else, the surgical procedure has become quite popular among people who want to get a good head start in losing weight.
What it is
Just like any other type of gastric bypass, loop gastric bypass mainly includes stapling and banding a certain part of the stomach. The idea is to make the organ smaller so that it can only accommodate a certain amount of food at a time. This then regulates the patient’s food intake thereby facilitating in a speedier weight loss.
However, what sets it apart from other types of similar surgical procedures is that mini gastric bypass is minimally invasive. With this type, the stomach is converted into a long narrow tube that is attached to the small intestine. A bigger part of it – the one that was stapled and banded – will be left unattached to the intestine. In this procedure, the surgeon will also need to bypass a certain part of the small intestine to limit its absorption of fat and calories.
Success rate
According to recent statistics, the mini gastric bypass can create quite promising results when it comes to successful weight loss. A patient weighing 300 pounds can successfully lose an average of 140 pounds within the year following surgery.
Eligibility
It is important to note that not everyone is eligible for mini gastric bypass. Just because an individual is overweight doesn’t necessarily make him a candidate for this procedure. While it is usually on the physician’s discretion whether or not to recommend gastric bypass surgery to his patient, certain criteria should still be observed.
For one, the individual should be between the ages 16 and 55 for him to be eligible for this surgery. This is to minimize any risks that can be aggravated by old age. The patient should also have a body mass index of 40 and above and weight of above 350 pounds. It is also important that the individual leads an active lifestyle – that is, he is working or still in school – to ensure that the surgical procedure will become well complemented. Aside from clean histories of drug or alcohol abuse, one can only be eligible for loop gastric bypass if he hasn’t gone through any other type of weight loss surgery in the past.
Other contraindications include a history of systemic lupus eythematosis, rheumatoid arthritis and collagen vascular disease. It’s also important to take note that loop gastric bypass or any other type of gastric bypass surgery for that matter is only administered as a court of last resort. This means that all other weight loss programs such as medications and fitness regimens have already been exhausted to no avail.
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