What are the different types of bariatric surgery procedures?
Bariatric surgery options include: • Restrictive surgeries that produce weight loss by reducing the amount of food the stomach can hold. Restrictive surgeries are: • the ‘laparoscopic adjustable gastric band’ • the ‘sleeve gastrectomy’ • the vertical banded gastroplasty • Malaborptive surgeries cause massive weight loss by reducing the absorption of fat and other nutrients into the body. The malabsorptive surgery commonly used in the U.S. is known as the biliopancreatic diversion with a duodenal switch or simply the ‘duodenal switch’. • Restrictive plus malabsorptive surgery causes massive weight loss by restricting the amount of food that the stomach can hold and also by reducing the digestion and absorption of food. The ‘Roux-en-Y gastric bypass’ is a bariatric surgery procedure that is both restrictive and malabsorptive.
