What Is A Mini Gastric Bypass?
A mini gastric bypass is a short and simple mildly invasive laparoscopic gastric bypass procedure designed for weight loss. Total time for the procedure is normally about thirty minutes depending on the facility. Hospitalization after surgery is less than 1 day so it is an easier less intrusive way to lose weight than a full out gastric bypass operation.
Proven to be a successful procedure for long term weight loss it is associated with a relatively low amount of pain and the risk involved in minimal. In addition if desired the mini gastric bypass can be reversed which is not true for a normal gastric bypass procedure.
In fact a doctor in North Carolina has a perfected and studied mini gastric bypass procedures and compared them head to head with normal gastric bypass procedures and found the mini gastric bypass to have shorter operating times, fewer complications and side effects as well as comparable amounts of weight loss!
That being said, “which one would you rather have done?” It seems that these mini gastric bypass surgery’s are going to eventually replace the old way of doing the gastric bypass. In addition to all of the other benefits listed the mini gastric bypass (MGB) is also cheaper than a normal gastric bypass.
A gastric bypass normally costs about $24,000 and a mini gastric bypass will cost about $17,000.
