Hi and welcome to the question of the week, I'm Dr. Alvarez. In this video I'd like to discuss a little more about the gastric sleeve procedure that we started doing many years ago and now has become very popular because of the benefits and amazing results and the low-risk involved. This is a restrictive ...
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Finally our new book is here!!! Here's an introduction so you can check it out on Amazon's webpage: With each passing year, bariatric surgeries are becoming more and more common place. After years of frustrating weight loss and regains, patients are looking for permanent answers to their obesity problems. New procedures, new techniques and new ...
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Hello everyone and welcome to the question of the week, I'm doctor Alvarez from Endobariatric.com and on this episode we'll discuss the relationship with gastroesophageal reflux disease also know as GERD and the sleeve gastrectomy. First of all I want to start out by saying that a very high percentage of patients who are obese ...
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Hello I'm Dr. Alvarez and this is the question of the week. This episode we'll talk about the pain related with the gastric sleeve surgery. The question I get is "Will it hurt?" Of course it's a common question, it's a question I would personally do myself. So, Pain after the gastric sleeve surgery is ...
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Welcome back to my blog. Today I'd like to discuss about some differences between the gastric sleeve or sleeve gastrectomy and the newer procedure called gastric plication. Let's begin by explaining a little bit of this brand new surgical approach. The term plication refers to the rounded shape of the stomach made by folding it ...
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You may have noticed quite a few changes lately here at EndoBariatric. We have update our website to be more user friendly. We have placed everything you need to know about the gastric sleeve, surgery in Mexico, traveling for weight loss surgery, Youtube videos on the surgery, my frequently asked questions, links to my podcast ...
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I'm very happy to have launched our newest website yesterday. My blog will be focused of course on the gastric sleeve and ways to help you out with more information and interesting articles. I will focus on weight loss surgery of course but without forgetting tips on nutrition, obesity, health and ways of staying fit. ...
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