Gastric Bypass Center

A mini gastric bypass is a shorter and more simplistic type of laparoscopic gastric bypass procedure designed for weight loss. Overall the entire procedure only takes about a half hour and the patient is only in the hospital for about 1 day so it is much less invasive then a full gastric bypass surgery. Along with the other benefits the mini gastric bypass has less risk associated with the procedure than a full gastric bypass operation involves.

The mini gastric bypass has proven to be able to produce long term weight loss with a much less amount of pain associated with the procedure as opposed to a full gastric bypass. The mini gastric bypass (MGB) also has the added benefit of being able to reverse the procedure unlike a normal gastric bypass which cannot be reversed once completed.

A mini gastric bypass procedure uses a scope and instruments that are inserted through small incisions instead of through a large abdominal incision as in the case of a regular gastric bypass operation. The mini gastric bypass procedure produces a stomach that is the size of a magic marker. This major reduction in the physical size of the stomach is the reason why such phenomenal weight loss is achieved.