Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Overview

 Obesity surgery may be an option for you if you are severely overweight. Bariatric surgery is another name for obesity surgery. If you have a body mass index (BMI) that is higher than 40, your healthcare provider might recommend it. 

If your BMI is higher than 40, you probably weigh about 100 more pounds than normal. The procedure known as  Laparoscopic surgeries or laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is one of the more recent options for bariatric surgery.

Vertical sleeve gastrectomy is depicted in the stomach's front view during the LSG procedure. Food and digestive fluids are depicted by arrows.

Under general anesthesia, LSG surgery is performed in a hospital. In your belly, your surgeon will make about five small cuts. A long, thin telescope with a tiny camera at the end will be used by him or her to perform the surgery. About 80% of your stomach will be removed using instruments pushed through the incisions. The images will be displayed on a TV screen in the operating room by your surgeon during the procedure.

The fundus, or outward-curving portion of your stomach, is removed during this procedure. The procedure is referred to as a "sleeve gastrectomy" because your surgeon will close the rest of your stomach into a tube that resembles a banana or a shirt sleeve after removing the fundus. 

Since you will have a lot more modest stomach, you will top off rapidly at eating times and eat less.

The majority of your stomach's ghrelin-secreting region can be found in the fundus. Taking out this part of your stomach may also help you lose weight by reducing your hunger because ghrelin may be partially responsible for making you feel hungry.

Surgery for Laparoscopic gastric banding takes about two hours. After surgery, the majority of people spend about two days in the hospital.