These patients require special care by a multidisciplinary team that involves specialists in General Surgery, Nutritionists and Intensive Physicians, who grant permanent and close care, with sufficient knowledge and experience to manage the complications with which these patients come.
For these patients, surgical resolution of their condition (if required) is crucial to control the focus of infection, as well as Total Nutritional support with an adequate management of nutrition pathways both in-between (directly to the intestine by special probes or via oral) as parenteral (special formulas administered intravenously made especially for each patient).
The reoperation of these patients is usually a challenge for the surgeon and the team in charge. The organism is in a phase of total uncontrol since it experiences a local and systemic inflammatory response that deforms its anatomy with the aim of defending itself, this makes the surgical reinterventions are of greater complexity than the initial surgery and that the main objective is to save the patient’s life.
We Can Help
If you are considered morbidly obese and have tried unsuccessfully to lose weight with diet and exercise, you may feel that your options are over. You may suffer from conditions related to obesity, such as high blood pressure or cholesterol, diabetes, asthma, sleep apnea or gastroesophageal disease, and you do not seem to be able to keep these conditions in check.
Fortunately, there is hope. Dr. Lopez offers consultations for sleeve gastrectomy in Tijuana or one of his other three locations in Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta. This advanced weight loss procedure has proved extremely effective and has provided dramatic results for the recipients of the surgery – even those who previously believed that they had exhausted all their options.