IMSS Morelos specialists successfully perform bariatric surgery on morbidly obese 45-year-old man

#InstitutoMexicanoDelSeguroSocial. – Thanks to a multidisciplinary team of specialists, the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) in Morelos successfully performed two bariatric surgeries on morbidly obese patients at the Regional General Hospital with Family Medicine (HGR/MF) No. 1, in Cuernavaca.

The general surgeon attached to HGR/MF No. 1, José Gamaliel Pacheco Deloya, one of the experts who participated in these surgeries, explained that this type of procedure consists of the removal of approximately 80% of the stomach in order to reduce the stomach’s capacity, which favors progressive and controlled weight loss.

«Through the gastric sleeve or gastric tube, a person eats less and this leads to weight loss in the course of the next few months, with the aim of improving their quality of life and reducing their comorbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, cancer, among other diseases,» he explained.

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