Medical Tourism, Bariatric Surgery

BARIATRIC SURGERY Medical Tourism

Morbid obesity, generally defined as a body-mass index (BMI) of 40 kg/m2 or greater, is associated with excess mortality and a high burden of obesity-related morbidities. Nonsurgical treatments (i.e., lifestyle modifications, behavioral Medical Tourism therapy, medications) are first-line therapies for obesity; however, the majority of morbidly obese patients do not achieve substantial weight loss with these approaches. Bariatric surgery is a therapeutic option for patients who have failed conservative treatment. Surgical treatment has been employed for several decades, and a large number of clinical series have demonstrated success in achieving substantial weight loss (TEC Special Report; Vol. 18, No. 9).

BARIATRIC SURGERY BENEFITS

• The app • It allows you to lose up to 70% of your weight excess.
• It offers you a new appearance which will increase your self-esteem and help you
    to join society.
• It improves your interpersonal and sexual relationships.
• It increases your job and professional opportunities.
• It facilitates in a remarkable way your motricity by eliminating nuisances and
    corporal pains.
• If you suffer from arterial hypertension, you have 70% probabilities that it can
    become controllable without medications, or with an important reduction in the
    use of them, in a period of 2 or 3 months after the surgery.
• In 80% of the cases cholesterol and triglycerides reduce until normal levels,
    generally in a period of 2 or 3 months.
• By reducing the arterial hypertension and the levels of cholesterol, the risks of
    suffering cardiac illnesses also decrease.
• It eliminates the gastroesophageal reflux completely (hiatal hernia).
• If you suffer from diabetes type II (mellitus), you have 90% possibilities of reducing
    your sugar in blood until normal levels.
• It eliminates the sleep apnea completely.
• It improves significantly the asthma and the respiratory insufficiency.

Gastric bypass with Roux-en-Y anastomosis (GBY) has been considered the bariatric surgery of choice in the U.S, and this is supported by a substantial body of literature.

HOW WILL THE PROCEDURE BE PERFORMED?
In normal stomachs that have not been operated, foods are subjected to the action of the gastric juices and then they pass to the intestine. Through the gastric bypass this part of the process is avoided.

By a suture line the stomach is divided in two parts: the upper and lower bag. These two bags have very different sizes: the upper one receives the ingested food and occupies only 10% of the stomach capacity, while the lower bag has the remaining 90% and is completely isolated from the passing food.
The thin intestine is intersected at 15.75 inches (40cm) of the stomach exit and it is connected with the small and recently created upper bag, so that food passes directly to the intestine without being processed by the gastric juices that are in the large lower bag.

The intestine portion that remains connected to the stomach exit by one of its extremes is connected by its other extreme (where the cut has been carried out) to the intact part of the intestine, approximately a meter ahead. Through this intestine tract, the big stomach bag will discharge the acids and the gastric juices that will meet the bile and the food, having skipped one meter of the intestine absorptive area.

ANESTHESIA
The surgery is performed under general anesthesia

SURGERY LENGTH
4-6 hours

HOSPITALIZATION
1 or 2 days

BANDAGES
A small adhesive bandage will cover each one of the 7 wounds of 1cm. You will also have two drainage tubes connected to airtight plastic bottles. One will be removed the third day after the surgery and the other one the seventh day.

PAIN
Mild to moderate

SCARS
Seven scars of only 1cm long will be distributed on your abdomen, drawing a rhombus whose inferior tip will be in the navel and the superior in the base of the breastbone.
Removal of the stitches 7 to 10 days after the surgery.

RISKS AND COMPLICATIONS OF THE GASTRIC BYPASS
Every surgical procedure, regardless of its triviality, has some risks and we should always think of them as a possibility. The gastric banding is a major surgery that is not an exception to this rule. The average index of immediate post-operative complications is approximately 2%.

RECOVERY
You will be able to get up of bed and to walk some steps 2 hours after the surgery. At the beginning you will feel nuisances at making efforts that involve the abdominal area, but very quickly the pain will be reduced.

WHAT HAPPEN AFTER A BARIATRIC SURGERY?
Most patients who undergo gastric bypass, or some form of gastric banding procedure, do lose weight. Many lose a lot of weight. But this massive weight loss brings problems of its own. Medical tourism

Typically patients are left with large folds of excess skin, along with loose muscles and sometimes localized pockets of unsightly fat tissue. In such cases, bariatric plastic surgery, or lipoplasty (liposuction), can help to reshape the normal structures of the body in order to improve appearance and self-esteem.

For patients suffering from morbid or malignant obesity, choosing bariatric surgery to reduce calorie intake may offer them a passport to a healthy life. But even if such surgery causes them to lose substantial amounts of weight, they may face new problems which may necessitate further operations.

1) To Remove Loose Skin
When bariatric surgery (eg. gastric bypass) leads to dramatic weight loss, excessive amounts of skin can accumulate and hang in various areas, including face, neck, breasts, upper and lower abdomen, flanks, armpit, back, buttocks, arms, forearms, thighs, legs, and calves. This surplus skin can cause considerable hygienic problems, skin irritation, skin breakdown, pain and infection.

2) To Remove Excess Residual Fat
In addition, even though the patient might have experienced massive weight reduction, this weight loss may not be evenly spread around the body. This also depends on the patient's type of obesity condition (whether gynoid or android). Bariatric plastic surgery operations can help to reduce these fat deposits, either by surgical excision or lipoplasty.

If you would like to have the perfect body, just ask for the post operative packages we can do for you.
Remember we count on the best prices worldwide!!

The price includes :

The Surgical Procedure
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15 days in a 5***** hotel
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Complete Haematology Tests Analysis
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Pre and Post-operative Consultations
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Transportation
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Billingual Assistant
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A Consultation at ROCA Dental Clinic
(With our specialist health care practitioners in dental aesthetics)
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A Consultation with our Health Care Specialist in Therapeutic Laser
(Scar Treatment after your esthetical surgery)
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A Consultation with our Health Care Specialist in Quirurgical Laser
(Dermatology, Aesthetics, Skin photorejuvenation, Leg veins, Acne scars, Hair removal, Skin resurfacing Pigmented lesions, Vascular treatments)
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A lower cost … up to 70% compared with your country, only having to pay for your operation!