Obesity Clinic

Obesity is a chronic disease like any other chronic disease that requires treatment time.
Obesity to create uncomfortable appearance and cause numerous diseases or exacerbate existing symptoms.
Diseases caused by obesity are:
Hyper lipidemia – hypertension – sleep apnea – gastro esophageal reflux - cardiovascular disease- psycho social problems, social, infertility or sterility.

Types of obesity treatment :

1. Diet and exercise
2. non-surgical medical procedures such as gastric balloon
3. Surgical technique

Obesity surgery are divided into three main groups :

1. Restrictive procedure
2. Malabsoptive procedure
3. combination of two above methods

In Rasoul akram hospital , patients are operated preferly with laparoscopic methods by laparoscopic surgeon .

The hospital's most experienced obesity surgeons all country operations to do laparoscopic procedure.
in laparoscopic surgery, surgeon performed a camera with a narrow Enlarge slender surgical instruments through several small incision of 5 to 10 mm into the abdomen.
Benefits of laparoscopic surgery versus open surgery , include the following:

1. less pain after surgery
2. shorter time hospitalization
3. reduce the risk of infection
4. Back to Work Faster
5. Very small incision
6. Reduce scar on the skin
7. reduce the risk of hernia after surgery
8. less intra abdominal adhesion tissues