NEW OUTPATIENT SURGERY

October 28, 2010

The BIG BALLOON INTRA GÁTRICO or is a solution for those who want a rapid and sustained weight without major efforts to stop eating.

Unlike other techniques of bariatric surgery, it is technically reversible, noninvasive, ie not to make any operating procedure the abdominal cavity. The BIG is implanted inside the stomach by FIBRO Endoscopy, as outpatients, the discomfort is similar to a simple upper endoscopy.

The benefits of weight reduction are immediately obvious because they produce an improvement in patient health pel. The treatment that follows the patient, which is controlled by a nutritionist and psychologist, takes place during the time it keeps the ball and dietary changes that can easily remain after removing the same.

The BIG is not only noninvasive and transitory, but also creates lifelong habits. How many times have you tried to lose weight and change their habits to feeding time, probably dozens of times. Surely know many healthy eating plans and that he would fácimente reduce weight and probably already attempted without success. The BIG will provide you done while seated and will create in you a habit, a habit, which undoubtedly will have a healthy life and reduce morbidity and mortality, ie you can live longer and with fewer conditions.

Our Gastroenterologists Endoscopisrtas were trained abroad in Chile, where he acquired extensive experience in the field.

The BIG is a silicone balloon for medical use becomes empty in the stomach and then inflated and positioned so that they use higher-sector or "fundus" stomach. The BIG generates a satiety Ud.a unusual in the extent of not feeling like eating only liquids in the early days.

The application of BIG is quick and painless and the results are also causes rapid and permanent. The negative balance of calories you consume in relation to spent you will see results in just a few weeks and be amazed at your progress.

Once you put the ball quickly can continue their normal duties are as the discomfort of until it is perfectly bearable usual work day.

Patients tell us that is surprising how LES reduces appetite and the feeling of comfort and pleasure that occurs when they begin to see results.

The effects will begin to notice immediately and remains active for 6 months or more depending on each patient.

When deciding his retirement, the endoscopist deflated balloon and removed through the mouth. It is at this moment where the entire team monitoring nutritional clinic will take care of their evolution.

The BIG is widely used in Europe, recent studies indicate that 8 years

• 98% of patients fall effortlessly, on average 20 kilos in 90 days and 15 kilos more in the next 3 months. Therefore it is indicated in patients who have to reduce from 30 to 40 kg in weight.

• 85% of obese patients with average body mass index 35, leaving the status of obesity

• 98% of morbidly obese patients with BMI between 40 and 50, leave their morbidity.

• 99% of obese patients with BMI between 27 GI and 35, are no longer obese.