Weight Loss Surgeries

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This paper takes a look at weight loss surgery focusing primarily on the dangers involved. The paper reviews the risks, the process of the surgery and the possible complications. The paper concludes by supporting the surgery, saying that weight-loss surgeries can not only improve and/or cure obesity-related health issues such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, sleep apnea, and diabetes, but can allow an individual to experience greater self-esteem, improved interpersonal effectiveness, and an enhanced quality of life.

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"The average adult stomach holds approximately 12 1/2 cups of food and fluid. In the RGB procedure, a small pouch is formed by closing off a large part of the stomach with staples (Fagel 2005). The small intestine is cut below the duodenum, and one open end is brought up and connected to the pouch, thus food and fluids pass from the esophagus into the pouch, then bypass the rest of the stomach and duodenum to flow directly into the small intestine (Fagel 2005). The larger part of the stomach remains intact, thus it continues to secrete digestive fluids which drain into the duodenum. Below the duodenum, where the small intestine has been cut to attach one loop to the pouch, the cut end is surgically reconnected to the small intestine farther down, creating a surgical Y, with one top branch being the esophagus-pouch-intestine loop and the other being the large stomach-duodenum-intestine connection (Fagel 2005). These two parts of the intestine join to form the bottom of the Y, allowing drainage through the rest of the small intestine and into the large intestine (Fagel 2005)."

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