Weight Doctors BARIATRICS® provide the best minimally invasive weight loss surgery available today.
Weight Doctors BARIATRICS® is a selection of procedures carefully chosen by our team of highly specialised bariatric doctors to provide you with the gentlest and most effective way to lose weight and achieve a healthy BMI. Our procedures are scientifically proven, safe, and considered the gold standard in today’s health and medicine.
At Weight Doctors patient safety always comes first! The most important quality for us is to ensure that our patients are always safe and recovering well following their surgery. Hence, Weight Doctors not only employs a team of highly specialised bariatric surgeons with many years of experience, but also the most up-to-date gold-standard laparoscopy equipment and medical tools. Our equipment and medical tools are from the trustworthy and world-renowned manufacturers–Aesculap and Johnson & Johnson. If in the incredibly rare event that something unexpected were to happen, our team of experts at our Intermediate Care Facility—set up exclusively for Weight Doctors BARIATRICS®—will efficiently and effectively take care of any complications. Thus, with Weight Doctors you are in the best hands with your minimally invasive gastric surgery and follow-up care.
Using laparoscopic technology, Weight Doctors achieve the greatest weight loss success
How is it possible for Weight Doctors to create the best results for safe and effective long-term weight loss?
Weight Doctors use minimally invasive laparoscopic technology for our weight loss surgery. To do so, we start by using small surgical tools to create three tiny punctures in the abdominal area. Then, using laparoscopic technology, we reduce the volume of the stomach. Unlike the endoscopic suturing technology of the Weight Doctors SLEEVE®, which reduces the stomach from the inside, Weight Doctors BARIATRICS® reduces the stomach from the outside.
Our doctors are specialised and very experienced, thus they perform the minimally invasive stomach reduction surgery safely, effectively, and within a relatively short period of time. Following the surgery, you will have an inpatient stay between 1-3 nights in one of our exclusive private clinics, during which you will receive the best possible care from our qualified nursing staff.
An exceptional trait of Weight Doctors BARIATRICS® is that you will have almost no scarring on your abdominal area, making it practically invisible to the naked human eye. All that remains are 3 small blemishes equivalent to the size of a little birthmark. Depending on the choice of technology, this can result in a reduction of your stomach volume by up to 90%, which is the absolute maximum stomach reduction using the most advanced medical technologies.
Depending on the surgery and with the right attitude and motivation, it is possible to lose practically all your excess weight within as little as 6 months! But, what is even more important than the extraordinary physical changes of our patients, is Weight Doctors BARIATRICS® surgeries help our patients to accomplish a significant improvement in their health and quality of life. Common excess weight-related comorbidities can be significantly improved and sometimes even completely resolved. Our patients report a renewed zest for life, a keen interest for daily activities and hobbies long unknown, and a new feeling of self-love and self-confidence – not least, a reignition of once lost social contacts that become restored.
The Gastric Bypass surgery explained
At Weight Doctors, there is a set procedure for gastric bypass surgery. The surgery takes approximately 2 to 2,5 hours and is performed under general anaesthesia. Following the surgery, you will have an inpatient stay in our private clinic between 1 to 3 nights. During your inpatient stay, we will carry out important follow-up examinations so that you can quickly start on the road to recovery. Please assume that you will not be able to socialise or go to work for approximately 14 days.
Due to advances in laparoscopic surgery, large abdominal incisions (open surgery) are no longer needed for gastric sleeve or bypass. This makes for a speedier and more gentle recovery. However, residual risks remain post-operatively, our team of experienced doctors and nurses ensure this is safely managed prior to discharge.
Similar to the gastric sleeve, gastric bypass surgery is also performed in a minimally invasive way by using keyhole incisions. This involves only a few very small, barely visible abdominal punctures through which we insert small surgical instruments into the abdominal cavity. In conjunction with visual aid (i.e., a video camera and appropriate illumination), your operating surgeon begins the procedure. Using these modern, gold-standard technologies allows us to minimise the risks of surgery and to significantly accelerate the healing process. This is an important prerequisite, especially for patients who are overweight, as such risks are generally higher. The gastric bypass surgery at Weight Doctors takes place in four successive steps:
First. Gastric bypass surgery begins with receiving general anesthesia by our specialized team of anesthetists. Once asleep, your attending surgeon carefully inserts the surgical instruments into the abdominal cavity using the laparoscopic technology (keyhole surgery). We get a clear view of the abdominal cavity with the help of a sterile video camera. We further enhance this by introducing some medical gas (specifically, Weight Doctors uses carbon dioxide). This increases the surgeon’s field of vision because it makes the abdominal wall stand out quite well from the organs in the abdomen. The more space the surgeon has, the easier it is to perform the operation.
Second. After the preliminary steps, the surgery begins. Slightly below the oesophagus, the stomach is divided using a special medical device called a stapler, or staple suture device, creating two parts. This step can be done relatively comfortably and quickly because the stapler can simultaneously cut and reseal the prepared tissue along the cut seam using staple suture technology. This effectively bypasses a time-consuming manual suturing procedure. At the bottom of the oesophagus, only a small, roundish stomach “pouch” remains. The other part of the stomach, the so-called residual stomach, is closed at the upper end using the stapler and only has contact with the rest of the gastrointestinal digestive system at the bottom. Unlike the gastric sleeve, the remainder of the stomach remains in the body. Through this procedure, the actual function of the larger stomach is no longer used because going forward the digestive process will be the pouch’s responsibility, which has a volume of approximately 50 to 100 ml.
Third. The surgeon makes an incision in the small intestine, specifically at the jejunum, of which the lower and second end is directly connected to the newly created small stomach pouch. In technical terms, this is how a gastrojejunal anastomosis is created. Going forward, ingested food will be passed directly through the pouch to the small intestine, thus bypassing the stomach.
Fourth. To successfully complete the gastric bypass surgery, the surgeon reconnects the loose upper end of the small intestine that had just been separated. This loose end becomes connected to another section of the small intestine, known as the ileum. This step is sometimes referred to as the Y-anastomosis principle. This step delays the confluence of the food pulp with the digestive juices of bile and pancreas from the duodenum, which means that only a part of the nutrients can still be processed and utilised by the body as an energy supply.
Following the fourth, and last step, the gastric bypass surgery is complete and now enables effective, rapid weight loss via two functional principles. The so-called restriction function of the procedure comes about through the significant reduction of the original stomach’s volume. This results in considerably less food ingested, thus an earlier feeling of satiety. The second function occurs from the modification of the small intestine tract, sometimes referred to as malabsorption function. This leads to considerably reduced absorption of nutrients that are passed through the stomach pouch. This is important because it makes gastric bypass particularly suitable for patients who have great difficulty in letting go of sweets, fatty foods, and high-calorie beverages. Unlike the other procedures, such as the gastric balloon, the gastric band, the gastric sleeve or the Weight Doctors SLEEVE®, the Weight Doctors can add a second supportive function to help you to considerably reduce your weight with gastric surgery.
