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What is Bariatric Surgery?
The part of the surgery that deals with the surgical treatment of obesity.
Types of Bariatric Surgery
The techniques used in bariatric surgery are based on two principles:
• FOOD RESTRICTION: by reducing the stomach capacity, the patient eats less food, since it is satisfied earlier. The ball, band, tube gastrectomy and gastric bypass use this principle. Even if the balloon should be considered more invasive technique such as surgery.
• FOOD MALABSORPTION: by making the food no longer go through certain sections of stomach and intestine, is looking for decreased absorption of ingested food. Gastric bypass, the duodenal and biliopancreatic diversion are techniques that combine the principle restrictive and malabsorption of food components. (more…)