Obesity and Weight Loss Surgeries

Obesity

Obesity is a chronic, life-threatening disease characterised by excessive accumulaton of body fat that often results in serious health problems. Click below to know more on obesity and weight loss surgeries for treating obesity.

• What is Obesity?
• What Causes Obesity?
• Associated Medical Conditions
• Useful Links

Weight Loss Surgeries

Surgery for obesity has been performed for just on fifty years. Over this time there have been up to 50 different operations performed with widely differing results and complications. The mostly widely performed operations still being performed will be discussed.

Restrictive Surgeries

• Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Band
• Vertical Banded Gastroplasty
• Sleeve Gastrectomy

Malabsorptive Surgeries

• Biliopancreatic diversion with/without Duodenal Switch
• Jejuno-ileal-bypass (JIB)

Body Sculpting Surgery

• Abdominoplasty

Combination Surgery

• Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

Revisional Surgery

Risks