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The Pathway to Successful Weight
Loss Surgery
What's Different About Weight
Loss Surgery?
Weight loss surgery is different from
most other surgical procedures. Your surgery will affect
your health and your eating habits for the rest of your
life. Thus, it is important that you are as completely
prepared as possible, both medically and emotionally,
before you undergo your surgery.
After confirming that you are a good
candidate for surgery, your surgeon will make sure you
are evaluated by a multidisciplinary team including
a nutritionist, a gastroenterologist, and a psychiatrist.
If you have heart or lung problems, you may be evaluated
by medical specialists in those areas. You will be seen
by the anesthesia team who will educate you about general
anesthesia.
After you surgery, you will need to
follow-up with your weight-loss surgery team on a lifelong
basis. During these follow-up visits with your surgical
team, your nutritionist, and your primary care doctor,
we will assess your weight loss and make sure you do
not suffer from any vitamin, mineral or other nutritional
deficiency.
To help you navigate your way through
this very involved process, the Weight Loss Surgery
Team at Mount Sinai has created The Pathway - a guide
through the whole process of weight loss surgery. Click
on each of the options on "The Pathway" menu
above, starting with "Download
Our Handbook" to learn more.
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