MIOT Hospitals offers a complete and permanent
solution for obese patients, who cannot able to
bring down their weight by diet and exercise alone.
MIOT offers permanent weight control of metabolic
diseases through Bariatric surgery for people who
are morbidly obese. Metabolic surgery is done to
treat uncontrolled Type II Diabetes / Insulin
resistant Type II Diabetes / Hypocholesterolemia.
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This is not a cosmetic surgery but surgery to
improve fitness and quality of life.
The Department performed the highest number of bariatric and
metabolic surgeries in India, last year. |
Obesity is defined as Body weight 30% greater than
the Ideal body weight or 25% excessive body fat for
men and 35% excessive body fat for women. But
precisely, if the Body Mass Index (BMI) is 30 Kg/m²
or greater, it’s called Obesity.
Morbidly obese means BMI >35 with cormorbid medical
conditions like, Diabetes / Hypertension/ Arthritis/
Heart and Kidney disease/ Infertility/ sleep apnea /
GERD.
Research shows that, only 10% of obese patients have
succeeded in bringing down their weight by diet and
exercises. But it is very difficult even for those
to maintain the “Thin” image permanently.
The Solution
MIOT KEYHOLE WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY is not a
cosmetic surgery. It is a holistic treatment that
brings down the overall body weight of the patient.
Two
types of Weight loss surgical procedures are
performed at MIOT. They are
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Restrictive
Surgery - Laparoscopic Swiss adjustable Gastric banding
Young patients with less medical problems, moderate
obesity are the simple patient selection criteria. A band is
placed around the upper most part of the stomach separating
into one small portion. Main advantage of this procedure is
its totally reversible.
For example:
During the pregnancy period the procedure can be totally
reversed, after breast feeding it can be activated without
any surgery - It’s an outpatient procedure. |
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Restrictive &
Malabsorptive Surgery - Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric
Bypass
Older patients with more medical problems, Morbid Obesity
are the basic patient selection criteria. It’s a permanent
and not reversible procedure. Stapling is used to create a
small upper stomach pouch, which restricts the amount of
food intake and also a large portion of stomach is bypassed
thus delaying food from mixing with digestive juices to
avoid complete calorie absorption. |
Patient has to be in the hospital for 2 to 3 days.
Patient can walk the very next day of surgery.
Liquid diet is given for first 1 to 2 weeks, and
then their regular diet can be given.
Only the high calorie diets like, sweets, chocolate,
alcohol and carbonated drinks should be restricted.
Weight loss up to 67% from the original body
weight can be achieved in 6 months and the
“Thin” image can be also be maintained permanently.
They can resume their normal activities in 10 days
without any discomfort.
Obesity is a Multifactor disease. Obesity can be due
to Diet, Age, Medical diseases, Hormones, Hereditary
factors and Psychological factors. And all these
factors are interlinked and form a vicious cycle.
Obese patients are not able to break the vicious
cycle.
MIOT keyhole Weight loss surgery helps you as a tool
to break this vicious cycle. Once the cycle is
broken the patients could also able to reduce the
morbidity of their other diseases like, Knee
arthritis, Diabetes and Hypertension.
