In Republican Hospital No. 1 – the National Center for Medicine, bariatric operations were performed for obese patients.
From February 7 to 10, specialists of the National Center of Medicine held a training master class led by leading professors of the Institute of Plastic Surgery and Cosmetology of Russia Vadim Fedenko and Natalia Bordan. The operations were carried out in an integrated operating room online using new digital technologies, the press service of the Ministry of Health said.
According to the WHO, obesity is a global epidemic: 1.7 billion people in the world are overweight, and this figure is constantly increasing.
“Bariatric surgery does not belong to the category of cosmetic or plastic,” experts explained. – Often bariatric surgery is confused with liposuction or abdominoplasty. “Weight loss operations have two goals: firstly, to reduce the amount of food that can be eaten in one go by reducing the volume of the stomach, and secondly, to reduce the absorption of nutrients in the small intestine.”
Specialists of the Medical Center will apply several methods of bariatric surgery, which allow to achieve weight loss with varying degrees of effectiveness. This is gastric bypass surgery, adjustable gastric banding, sleeve gastroplasty, biliopancreatic bypass surgery. All these operations are performed by laparoscopy – without large incisions.
As doctors explain, weight loss is a long process, and bariatric surgery is only the first step. After surgery, a whole team of doctors is engaged in the patient – endocrinologists, psychiatrists, nutritionists, cardiologists, gastroenterologists, the press service of the department said.
