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An estimated six million Americans are affected by severe obesity, a condition that has become a major public health problem resulting in 300,000 deaths annually. Morbid obesity is a chronic disease associated with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and arthritis. Bariatric surgery is the only proven technique to achieve long-term weight loss and, as a result, is one of the fastest growing surgical techniques being practiced today.

Gastric bypass surgery makes the stomach smaller and allows food to bypass part of the small intestine. You will feel full more quickly than when your stomach was its original size, which reduces the amount of food you eat and thus the calories consumed. Bypassing part of the intestine also results in fewer calories being absorbed. This leads to weight loss.

This Video depicts complete session of bypass surgery, analyzes its merits & demerits, views and opinions from the experts.

Although weight loss surgery provides many health benefits, it is not risk-free and some patients experience complications. These complications result from either patient non-compliance or a mechanical failure of the bariatric surgical procedure itself. Julio Teixeira, MD, director of the Weight Loss Surgery Center at St. Lukes and Roosevelt Hospitals, is committed to safety as his top priority and places particular emphasis on the prevention of complications during surgery. For example, during each procedure Dr. Teixeira proactively closes open pockets in the abdomen to prevent bowel from getting trapped and causing herniation, one of the major post-surgical complications that can arise. St. Lukes Hospital presented a live Webcast of Dr. Teixeiras laparoscopic procedure on February 13, 2006

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