Mir Ali, a bariatric surgeon and the medical director of MemorialCare Surgical Weight Loss Center at Orange Coast Medical Center in Fountain Valley, California, says that he often encourages patients ...

This post explores how this model fits following metabolic and bariatric surgery. The model is comprehensive, where not all maintenance pathways are present for everyone, and thus requires ...

Participants were divided into two groups: those receiving the recommended protein supplement (15 g/day) with post-bariatric surgery diet training (BSD + PS), and those receiving only the ...

Surgical-site infections associated with bariatric surgery can be prevented with appropriate pre-operative measures including appropriate prophylactic antibiotics, adequate control of ...

The patient had struggled with weight loss for years. Despite numerous attempts at various diets, she consistently regained ...

A recent Indian study shows that metabolic bariatric surgery significantly ... the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle post-surgery. The multi-centre study, published on Wiley Online ...

Then if this has not worked along with other diet and lifestyle measures to achieve sufficient weight loss, bariatric surgery may be considered. BMI is not a perfect measure because it does not take ...

Share on Pinterest Bariatric surgery ... term success with diet and exercise alone is about 2–5% — very, very low,” Ali told us. “The long-term success with surgery is more on the order ...

Patients have to make lifestyle changes before and after surgery. The pre-op process involves an all-liquid diet in the ... for five years post-op, then they’ll have good results for five years,” ...

Istanbul, in particular, has become a medical tourism hub, offering advanced bariatric procedures like gastric bypass, ...