‘Morbid Obesity’

Solution to Obesity Surgery

Monday, June 28th, 2010

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Science and modern technology have developed new and better ways to help obese people reduce weight, surgery reduces the stomach to receive food. This treatment is becoming increasingly safe and effective as it does help reduce between 50 and 70 percent overweight.

This option is recommended for people who are overweight more than 50% of its maximum weight and is sometimes the only viable alternative for extreme cases.

This type of surgery, also called bariatric, has revolutionized the treatment of obesity, since people with morbid obesity, previously had no solution and only option they remained before complications that eventually causes overweight.

This type of surgery is performed in Chihuahua by specialists in surgery, specifically trained in this procedure. Before operating, the doctor evaluates the person as much risk they are going to have to decide whether the greater the danger of living with obesity than entering the operating room, even though today is a minimally invasive surgery . Currently uses two types of bariatric surgery, restrictive and mixed.

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Surgical Treatment of Morbid Obesity

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

All provinces do not consider the surgical treatment of morbid obesity as an insured service under the Law on Health Insurance. You should check with the authority on health in your province.

The provinces felt that the surgical treatment of morbid obesity is a service, like Quebec, have waiting lists very long because of the limited number of surgeons trained to perform these procedures safely and effectively. In Quebec, the waiting for bariatric surgery may be as long as 3 to 7 years, when the patient communicates with the bariatric surgery center, until the surgery is performed.

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