Vertical banded gastroplasty (VBG):

Visit here for obesity surgery hospitals in India. In this procedure, the surgeon uses staples and a plastic band to create a smaller stomach pouch. Patients are unable to eat large quantities of food and do notice a feeling of fullness. Although this is a quick procedure with fewer complications, patients have less weight loss after several years. This procedure is not offered at the Clinic. Risks of VBG include erosion of the band, breakdown of the staple line, and, in a small number of cases, leakage of stomach juices into the abdomen. The latter requires an emergency operation. In a very small number of cases (less than 1 percent) infection or death from complications can occur.

Gastric bypass operations


These types of operations combine the creation of a small stomach pouch to restrict food intake and construction of bypasses of the duodenum and other segments of the small intestine to cause malabsorption. If anything, increased demand on obesity surgery hospitals in India due to medical tourism may result in their expansion.