Dr. Resa presents a faster, simpler, safer and better recovery technique.
For more than 10 years, Dr. Resa of the Montpellier Clinic in Zaragoza has been performing a 30-minute procedure to treat obesity and/or type 2 diabetes. This surgery is minimally traumatic, so it provides a quick recovery, with virtually no pain, very early mobility, food tolerance in a few hours and stay of less than 2 days.
As Dr. Resa says: “The fact that so little dissection is required drastically reduces the possibility of hemorrhage, and since there is only one anastomosis, the possibility of leakage, which is very low in any case, is reduced by half. The simplified technique avoids many short- and long-term postoperative complications. In addition, we have achieved an intervention with a larger section of common intestine, which reduces steatorrhea and improves the absorption of vitamins.
With the simplification of the technique, the risk perception we had of bariatric surgery has disappeared and the adaptation of the intestinal measure for each patient, according to weight, height and metabolic situation, allows us to use it to solve morbid obesity and its concomitant pathologies in patients with any body mass index higher than 35 or type 2 diabetes in patients with a body mass index between 30 and 35.
The fact that it is a minimal risk intervention and adaptable to the needs of each patient makes it ideal as an operation of the growing metabolic surgery. The overall decrease in the cost of the operation, in surgical time, stay and complications make the surgery cheaper than the medical treatment of the metabolic problems it solves.
In the intervention we perform a bypass, which is effective in slimming, but does not involve a significant reduction of the stomach, which allows patients to eat normally without the need to drastically change their eating habits in the long term. This provides a great quality of life,” concludes Dr. Resa.