Gastric Bypass Making Hystory

Gastric Bypass History

Before becoming the most efficient and effective weight loss surgery, Gastric Bypass has come a long way.
Ever since stomach surgeries begun to be performed, it was observed that patients who were subjected to an extraction of part of their stomachs due to gastrointestinal ulcers lost weight considerably after undergoing surgery.

However, a few decades passed until 1966, when the first steps toward using this technique to reduce weight were taken. By using a technique that was relatively similar to the one used nowadays, reducing the capacity of the stomach.

Before that year every attempt had showed unacceptable risks and complications that rendered this surgery disposable. The main difference between those surgeries and the ones that are being performed from the 90’s onwards is that the former involved open surgery, through a large incision to directly see the treated area, whereas the latter are performed through laparoscopy techniques.

These techniques consist in using special tools that are inserted through very small incisions, so that the treated area is seen through a closed circuit monitor. Incisions of less than 1 cm are made nowadays reducing surgery trauma and therefore making postoperative pain more tolerable.

These two important advances, as well as cutting down postoperative risks and complications, result in more and more people wanting to undergo this weigth loss surgery, since it provides better results than any other treatment to lose weight.

Technology and advances on postoperative care make today’s technique a more secure and efficient way to lose and control weight. At Worthymed we use state-of-the-art techniques and employ experienced professionals with outstanding backgrounds that allow us to make history in this kind of procedures.

Most importantly, with every surgery we make history in the lives of the people who trust in Worthymed to start a new life and undoubtedly a much better life!