Gastrectomy or minor amendment of the digestive system to correct obesity Gastrectomy or Tubular gastroplasty surgery gastrectomy is one minor digestive anatomical modification to successfully correct morbid obesity. Also called Sleeve Gastrectomy, Vertical Gastrectomy and gastric sleeve. Gastrectomy is a treatment that was initially described as a first step of more complicated procedures such as gastric bypass or duodenal switch, in patients with very high risk surgical with body mass index greater than 50, subsequently found that the loss of initial weight of patients undergoing gastrectomy as unique surgery was very good (approximately between 50% and 60% of overweight) one year of surgery, unless a supplementary or additional surgery is necessary. How does it work? Gastrectomy is performed through laparoscopic surgery without opening the abdomen, and general anesthesia and lasts between 90 and 120 minutes. Through gastrectomy, a longitudinal resection of the more compliant portion of the stomach is made, it manufactures is a small elongated stomach, with a reduced capacity of 80-120cc (being the normal stomach of 1. 000cc), preserving your digestive function and filling and emptying natural system. The area that is left in the form of gastric tube has three muscular layers and therefore is the least compliant portion of the stomach. What are its advantages? The advantages of gastrectomy with respect to other restrictive techniques that are performed, is the absence of foreign bodies (intervention of Masson and gastric band) that regulate appetite, and that for the first time is achieved, in a restrictive technique.
Gastrectomy is a true metabolic surgery. It lowers levels of ghrelin (hunger hormone), to eliminate the portion of the stomach that produces it. It also does not require adjustments such as the adjustable gastric band or performing anastomoses (connections between the intestines) as the gastric bypass. The recovery is very quick requires between 2 and 3 days of hospitalization and labor reboot may carry out from 8 postoperative days.