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One favorite weight loss therapy for morbid obesity is Bariatric Surgery or Weight Loss Surgery. The reason is that procedure considered ‘safety’ and off course fast weight loss result, also available at nearest specialist clinic and hospital.
The consideration with this treatment when morbidly obese patient with diet, exercise, and medication failed to solve.

The procedure may involved 2 strategies which are;
1. Gastric restriction.
This will involves Stomach Stapling (Vertical banded gastroplasty).
It’s restrictive operation for weight control.
A vertical pouch is created by stapling the front of the stomach to the back wall, below the junction between esophagus and stomach.
However some doctor more prefer new adjustable gastric band caused not require cutting into the stomach and any staple line. More safe. Typically, this procedure designed for obese patients with specific body mass index (usually more than 39 of BMI).

2. Intestinal malabsorption.
This involved the billionpancreatic diversion with or without duodenal switch and the distal gastric bypass.
Benefits of this procedure is sustained weight loss through decreasing in oral intake and induction of significant malabsorption of fat by diverting bile and pancreatic secretion, so then it’s less dependable with patients dietary.

Other procedure for intestinal malabsorption is Laparoscopic weight loss surgery.
The benefits may including related to the wound, reduced peri-operative morbidity, and short recovery.
One of popular procedure is laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.

However, the complication may occur from above treatments may including respiratory complication (both peri-operative or post-operative), leaks of anastamotic, and posible to re-surgical.
Mortalilty rate reported bellow than 1%.

For laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass may have the risk of acute gastric distention caused by obstruction at the enteroenterostomy site, severe distention, internal hernias, stomal stenosis, band erosion into the stomach, small bowel obstruction, staple disruption, and others complication (related to pulmonary, hepatobiliary, gastrointestinal, neurological, and some others).

However, most expert specialist surgeon know how to treats the complication.
Deep consultation needed between patients and surgeon for best and safe result, also the prices of surgery cost.