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Is Sleeve Gastrectomy is a major surgery?

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Is Sleeve Gastrectomy is a major surgery?

The gastric sleeve operation is a big procedure. You'll receive anesthetic from the doctors so you may sleep through the procedure. The surgeon will remove three-quarters of your stomach after you have fallen unconscious. The gastric sleeve is the name given to your smaller, banana-shaped stomach. In this video, Mr Ahmed Ahmed talks about the Gastric Sleeve operation

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A sleeve gastrectomy is a surgical procedure where we go in with keyhole surgery and we reduce the shape of the stomach into a banana shape and we remove roughly around 70% of the stomach and the body.

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