Surgical Weight Loss
Remember, weight-loss surgery shouldn’t be considered a quick fix. After surgery, it is recommended to change your eating and lifestyle habits. This includes eating healthy foods, controlling your portion sizes and exercising regularly to achieve maximum weight-loss.
Weight-loss surgery can produce life-changing results.
You may qualify for weight-loss surgery if you have a:
At the St. Elizabeth Physicians Weight Management Center, we perform open weight-loss surgery and laparoscopic weight-loss surgery. The three laparoscopic procedures we perform are:
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Benefits of Weight-Loss Surgery
There are many benefits of weight-loss surgery, including:
- Improved or resolved diabetes, high cholesterol and sleep apnea
- Improved fertility
- Decrease in back and joint pain
- Lower blood pressure
- Improved mobility
- Fewer medication requirements
Laparoscopic Weight-Loss Surgery
Although open surgery is an option at the Weight Management Center, we typically perform laparoscopic weight-loss surgeries because they often result in:
- Better wound healing
- Less pain
- Shorter hospital stays
- Shorter recovery times
Though weight-loss surgery has many benefits and is a lifesaving procedure for some patients, there are risks. Risks include gastrointestinal leak, bleeding, pneumonia, blood clots, vomiting, wound infection, bowel obstruction and death.
