Major surgery is always accompanied by the possibility of complications which can lengthen a patient’s stay at hospital, prolong recovery time, and increase physical discomfort. Bariatric surgery is no exception.

Gastric Sleeve bariatric surgery is a laparoscopically performed surgical procedure which removes around 70-80% of a patient’s stomach, in particular that part which produces the hunger hormone, Ghrelin.

There exists a small percentage of obesity patients who suffer such extreme overweight (BMI>55) that traditional strategies such as Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass may be insufficient to bring them to a near normal weight range.

Dumping syndrome is one of the known complications of Gastric Bypass surgery, and is a physiological reaction which alerts the body to inappropriate eating.

Low BMI patients are generally defined as obese patients with a BMI of between 25 and 30. For such individuals, surgical options such as RnY Gastric Bypass, Gastric Sleeve or Gastric Banding are currently unavailable under existing medical guidelines.

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