Welcome to Beverly Oaks Surgery Center
MEASURE YOUR SUCCESS, POUND FOR POUND!
Call us today and we’ll set you up with a complimentary, one-on-one consultation with a medical professional at our facility. We want you to feel comfortable and confident that weight loss surgery is the right solution for you!
Our Board certified surgeons and highly trained staff are here to help you every step of the way in order explore all of your options, answer all of your questions, and guide you in the direction that’s right for YOU. Permanent weight loss IS attainable, and we are confident that our team can get you the results you want and need.
At Beverly Oaks Surgery, we understand the constant struggles that our patients go through as a result of their obesity. Diabetes, heart attack, and high blood pressure are among the many health issues that extra weight can cause.
There are options, however!
There is the gastric band and the gastric sleeve.
Sleeve gastrectomy is a restrictive form of bariatric surgery that shrinks the stomach to approximately 15% of its original size. It is commonly performedon severely obese patients who are not healthy enough to undergo a successful gastric bypass, biliopancreatic diversion or similar weight loss surgery. The procedure enables rapid weight loss with fewer complications than the more conventional weight loss surgeries, but its effectiveness loses stride because there is no intestinal bypass.
Sleeve gastrectomy is currently under evaluation for lower weight patients as an alternative to the Lap Band® weight loss procedure. This is because the procedure does not require insertion of any foreign object into the body for permanent restriction, nor is it vulnerable to the unique issues the band presents. For example, the band can slip or be wrongly positioned by an inexperienced surgeon while the sleeve is at once cut and sealed, unable to inadvertently “fix” itself.
The actual sleeve gastrectomy procedure is quite simple. The surgeon’s tools enter through a small incision and staple the stomach down into a long tube which is of a greatly reduced volume. Once the “sleeve” is examined to ensure quality and no leakage or bleeding, the excess stomach tissue is then excised. This direct removal has a secondary bariatric effect of reducing the secretion of the hormone Ghrelin, responsible for inducing hunger. One of the few parts of the body to produce and secrete Ghrelin is the stomach lining, most of which is removed in surgery.
