What is Laparoscopic Gastric
Bypass Surgery
Laparoscopy is a term given to a group of
operations that are performed with the aid of a camera placed in the abdomen.
Originally, the laparoscope was used during surgical removal of the gallbladder
(laparoscopic cholecystectomy) and appendix (laparoscopic appendectomy).
Additionally, exploratory laparoscopy has often been used for diagnostic
purposes to view the abdomen after abdominal trauma and in cases of abdominal
illness.
Now the laparoscope also allows physicians
to perform minimally invasive surgery with just a small incision in the
abdomen. This technology, known as laparoscopic assisted surgery, enables
the minimally invasive removal of the colon, the kidney (for living donors
in kidney transplants), and weight reducing procedures such as gastric
bypass and vertical banding gastroplasty (VBG).
Source:
US National Institutes of Health
Weight
Loss Surgery Information
How
Weight Loss Surgery Works - Morbid
Obesity - Morbid
Obesity Surgery
Treatment of Obesity
- Bariatric
Surgery Health Risks - Abdominoplasty
Gastric Banding - Gastric
Bypass - Mini
Gastric Bypass - Gastroplasty
Laparoscopic
Gastric Bypass - Roux
En Y Gastric Bypass - Lap
Band Surgery
Lap Band - Lap
Band FAQs - Biliopancreatic
Diversion - Duodenal
Switch
Liposuction - Liposuction
Surgery - Superwet
Liposuction - Tumescent
Ultrasonic Liposuction
- Tummy Tuck - Mini
Tummy Tuck - Stomach
Stapling
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