Guest guest Posted August 21, 2001 Report Share Posted August 21, 2001 Here's part One of the letter. My comments will be in {} Standford University Hospital and Clinics Stanford Center for Bariatric Surgery Department of Surgery, Rm H-3680 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94304 Pamela , Surgeon Lorna Bent, Patient Coordinator Office: Clinic Clinic Fax Surgery for Morbid Obesity {Two paragraphs on the problems with obesity} Your doctor has proposed the possibility of an operation to assist you in your attempts to lose weight. This is a drastic measure that should not be undertaken lightly. This handout is intended to provide a brief introduction to the bariatric (operations to help one lose weight) procedures that we at Stanford are willing to perform. Read this handout carefully, but do not restrict yourself to just this handout. I encourage you to seek other sources of information and to speak to patients who have undergone these procedures. {Three paragraphs that I provided in my first email under PLEASE PLEASE READ - STANFORD LETTER} GASTRIC BYPASS: This operation works by bypassing the distal stomach, by restricting the size of the gastric reservoir, and by producing undesirable side-effects if sweets, especially sweet liquids, are taken. It is more effective than the Vertical Banded Gastroplasty, but may rarely produce serious long-term metabolic consequences, especially relating to Vitamin B-12 absorption, calcium and iron absorption, and anemia. Though this is the operation we recommend for most patients, we are generally reluctant to perform this operation in women who wish to become pregnant. This operation is not likely to enable you to achieve your ideal body weight, and indeed, without your effort this operation may not produce any significant weight loss at all. That is, it is possible for most people to eat enough even with this operation to maintain their preoperative weight. LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY: For most patients we have been willing to perform these procedures laparoscopically. Using a small video telescope and fine, long instruments approximately the diameter of your little finger, we can perform these procedures with several small punctures of the abdominal wall, rather than a long, upper abdominal incision. The main advantage of this surgery is that recovery may be faster than with traditional open surgery. It requires more operative time than the open surgery, however, and we do not yet know if it will prove to be as safe as the open surgery. {End of part One. Any typos are from me!} dee ===== Dee Waiting for Ins. Co. Approval 313/Want to be 165 __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 21, 2001 Report Share Posted August 21, 2001 Here's part One of the letter. My comments will be in {} Standford University Hospital and Clinics Stanford Center for Bariatric Surgery Department of Surgery, Rm H-3680 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94304 Pamela , Surgeon Lorna Bent, Patient Coordinator Office: Clinic Clinic Fax Surgery for Morbid Obesity {Two paragraphs on the problems with obesity} Your doctor has proposed the possibility of an operation to assist you in your attempts to lose weight. This is a drastic measure that should not be undertaken lightly. This handout is intended to provide a brief introduction to the bariatric (operations to help one lose weight) procedures that we at Stanford are willing to perform. Read this handout carefully, but do not restrict yourself to just this handout. I encourage you to seek other sources of information and to speak to patients who have undergone these procedures. {Three paragraphs that I provided in my first email under PLEASE PLEASE READ - STANFORD LETTER} GASTRIC BYPASS: This operation works by bypassing the distal stomach, by restricting the size of the gastric reservoir, and by producing undesirable side-effects if sweets, especially sweet liquids, are taken. It is more effective than the Vertical Banded Gastroplasty, but may rarely produce serious long-term metabolic consequences, especially relating to Vitamin B-12 absorption, calcium and iron absorption, and anemia. Though this is the operation we recommend for most patients, we are generally reluctant to perform this operation in women who wish to become pregnant. This operation is not likely to enable you to achieve your ideal body weight, and indeed, without your effort this operation may not produce any significant weight loss at all. That is, it is possible for most people to eat enough even with this operation to maintain their preoperative weight. LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY: For most patients we have been willing to perform these procedures laparoscopically. Using a small video telescope and fine, long instruments approximately the diameter of your little finger, we can perform these procedures with several small punctures of the abdominal wall, rather than a long, upper abdominal incision. The main advantage of this surgery is that recovery may be faster than with traditional open surgery. It requires more operative time than the open surgery, however, and we do not yet know if it will prove to be as safe as the open surgery. {End of part One. Any typos are from me!} dee ===== Dee Waiting for Ins. Co. Approval 313/Want to be 165 __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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