Gastric Sleeve Gastrectomy

If you want to lose weight permanently and other methods are not working, gastric sleeve surgery can be an effective solution. In this procedure, also called stomach reduction surgery, part of your stomach is removed and your stomach becomes much smaller than before.

The term 'tube' comes from the shape of your new stomach created in the operation. As your stomach will be smaller than before, you will feel full more quickly and will not be able to eat as much as before. You can achieve great results with gastric sleeve surgery and lose 80% of your excess weight in six months.

Gastric sleeve gastrectomy has become a popular option among weight loss surgeries. The most important feature of sleeve gastrectomy surgery, which can provide highly effective and permanent weight loss when performed in accordance with the standards, is that although changes are made in the digestive system, the food progresses naturally in the system. In this way, vitamin and mineral deficiencies after gastric sleeve surgery are less common and easier to correct compared to other methods. In a way, sleeve gastrectomy can be considered as a more organic method.

Medical research has shown that the hunger-producing hormone ghrelin is significantly reduced in patients undergoing sleeve gastrectomy. It turns out that the upper part of the stomach, which is removed during gastric sleeve surgery, produces most of the ghrelin hormone. Since this part of the stomach remained in the body in gastric bypass patients, the ghrelin hormone level did not decrease, and therefore this decrease in hunger sensation seen in sleeve gastrectomy patients was not seen with the same frequency in bypass patients. 

Gastric sleeve surgery became very common after it was approved in the United States in 2010. 'Duodenal switch' surgery, which has been performed since the 1960s to lose weight, was started to be performed in two stages in 1998 because it was risky in super obese patients. In the first stage, 'sleeve gastrectomy' was performed, and patients were scheduled to come back a year later for the second stage. But something unexpected happened, the patients lost weight at the desired rate and did not need the second surgery. In this way, it was coincidentally understood that 'gastric sleeve surgery' alone is a sufficient weight loss surgery.