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Do you have questions about what surgical weight loss looks like?
Now is your chance to follow it live on Monday, August 17 at 9:30 a.m. Dr. Alex Gandsas, Division Head, Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, will perform a sleeve gastrectomy on a 49-year old male with a history of hypertension and sleep apnea. The patient's body mass index is 57 and he currently weighs 362 lbs. His ideal weight is 159 lbs.
In this procedure, the stomach is reduced to about 15 percent of its original size, and is performed laparoscopically.
To access the live twittered surgery, search for LBHealth on Monday beginning at 9:30 a.m. Then follow us by using #LBOR. You can always find out the latest in health news and what's going on at LifeBridge Health by following us on Twitter - http://twitter.com/lbhealth.
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Do you have questions about what surgical weight loss looks like?
Now is your chance to follow it live on Monday, August 17 at 9:30 a.m. Dr. Alex Gandsas, Division Head, Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, will perform a sleeve gastrectomy on a 49-year old male with a history of hypertension and sleep apnea. The patient's body mass index is 57 and he currently weighs 362 lbs. His ideal weight is 159 lbs.
In this procedure, the stomach is reduced to about 15 percent of its original size, and is performed laparoscopically.
To access the live twittered surgery, search for LBHealth on Monday beginning at 9:30 a.m. Then follow us by using #LBOR. You can always find out the latest in health news and what's going on at LifeBridge Health by following us on Twitter - http://twitter.com/lbhealth.
- Bariatric Services Now Offered At Sinai And Northwest
While its patients are slimming down, the Bariatrics Program at LifeBridge Health is expanding, with services at Northwest and Sinai hospitals. Kuldeep Singh, M.D., joined the Division of General Surgery at Northwest Hospital as the division head of Minimally...
- Tweeted Surgery A Success
Today's gastric sleeve surgery, which LifeBridge Health tweeted live, was a success. The patient, a morbidly obese man weighing 362 pounds, is expected to fully recover. His ideal weight is 159 pounds. Gastric sleeve is not gastric bypass. In the...
- Sinai Hospital Of Baltimore Physician Performs Rare Single-incision Surgery For Weight Loss
Alex Gandsas, M.D., M.B.A., head of the Division of Bariatric & Minimally Invasive Surgery at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, successfully completed a weight loss operation known as ?gastric sleeve? using a single keyhole incision. ?It is a very complicated...
- Gastric Sleeve Procedure Helps Bariatric Patients Lose Weight, Improve Blood Pressure And Diabetes
I've previously posted about the health advantages of bariatric surgery. The gastric sleeve is a relatively new approach. It involves re-shaping the stomach into a narrow tube, or sleeve. Unlike the gastric bypass or the band, the sleeve does not...
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Dr. Alex Gandsas, head of the Division of Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery at Sinai Hospital To an outsider, gastric bypass surgery may seem to be a way of treating obesity. But Alejandro Gandsas, M.D., head of the Division of Bariatric and Minimally...