Bariatric surgery

It refers to various surgical procedures performed in order to treat obesity.

It is quite well-known that obesity might cause such diseases as vascular pathologies of heart, diabetes, hypertension, infertility, pathologies of spine and joints, etc.

At the end of 20th and beginning of 21st centuries the World Health Organization characterized obesity as non-infectious epidemic. Nowadays hundreds of million people are ill with obesity and 3-5% of world’s population is ill with difficult form of it – morbid obesity.

Bariatric surgery gives a chance to treat not only obesity but diseases caused by it like diabetes.

Weight loss can be achieved by restriction of nutrient intake (restrictive surgery) or by disconnecting some part of the digestive system (bypass surgery).

The purpose of bariatric surgery is reducing of the risk of sudden death, person’s social life improvement and aesthetic rehabilitation by losing weight.

We should mention that bariatric surgery is prerogative of abdomen surgeons and patients go to plastic surgeons in order to correct body shape and remove loose skin after massive weight loss. Leading abdomen surgeons work in our clinic.

Modern bariatric surgery’s main methods are:

Our clinic was the first in Georgia to start performing intragastric ballooning in 2004.

Also, first time in Georgia we performed laparoscopy gastric banding in 2006. We perform Gastric Shunting and Biliopancreatic diversion too.

 

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