Metabolic Surgery

Surgery for severe obesity goes way beyond weight loss. This surgery results in the complete remission or significant improvement of type 2 diabetes and other life-threatening diseases in most patients

Metabolic surgery or surgery for diabetes is performed not only to produce weight loss, also it does far more than produce weight loss. Metabolic and bariatric surgery currently provide one of the most effective therapies for type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, arthritis, asthma, acid reflux, infertility and high cholesterol.

Such operations can often restore the health of the morbidly obese individual by the correction of abnormal metabolism, metabolism is the process by which the body coverts food to energy at the cellular level.

The most common metabolic disease is type 2 diabetes, which occurs when the body does not adequately metabolize or regulate blood sugars due to lack of insulin or the body's inability to respond to the insulin that is produced.

According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), nearly 21 million people in the U.S. have type 2 diabetes and another 54 million have pre-diabetes The evidence is extensive.

Most studies show prevention, improvement or remission of type 2 diabetes after surgery with a relatively low rate of risk in appropriate patients Gastric Bypass and Duodenal Switch are the procedures of choice to improve or inclusive resolve the metabolic syndrome in correct patients

OBESITY EL SALVADOR is a pioneer institution to performe laparoscopic metabolic surgery in Latin America.

If you need more information about metabolic surgery in El Salvador, please contact us: info@obesityelsalvador.com