Percentage of removed stomach in Gastric sleeve?!

[jane13 2,256]

@@4MRB4PHOTO - thanks for sharing, again. I remember reading this a long time ago

[Qwalla 132]

My surgeon says my stomach will be the size of a small banana. Waiting on insurance approval...then surgery will be scheduled! After 6 months of preparing I am so ready...scared...but ready!

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[MaRoxanne 2]

On 5/11/2016 at 7:47 PM, ZillyNa said:

Hello. I'm waiting for sleeve surgery too. In my case I understood that the doctor intends to cut 70-75 % of my stomach, so it will contain just a volume of 150 ml maximum circa. Doing a research for a query similar to this topic, I found that the surgeon decides the amount of percentage to cut basing the evaluation on many factors. There isn't an only size for the result, that is decided depending on the patient conditions. The same surgery is made also for very different health problems of the stomach, for example to eliminate mutating stomach metaplasia. In this case the surgery criteria are the opposite of the aim of weight loss, so they try to preserve the maximum portion of stomach and give to the patient a post op diet studied to gain or keep weight...

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Met with my surgeon yesterday out of state, KS. Blue Valley Surgical

All my research has shown successful GASTRIC SLEEVE is 75-80% removed stomach.

My surgeon told me yesterday he would be removing only 50%!!??

Is this a fail? Before I get started?

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4 hours ago, MaRoxanne said:

Met with my surgeon yesterday out of state, KS. Blue Valley Surgical

All my research has shown successful GASTRIC SLEEVE is 75-80% removed stomach.

My surgeon told me yesterday he would be removing only 50%!!??

Is this a fail? Before I get started?

This is an old thread, but something to remember is that most of the time you think about the sleeve in terms of what remains VS what was removed. Everyone's stomach is different, so the portion removed will vary based on that. The typical way the surgery is done is a tube like object is inserted into the stomach via the mouth and the surgeon uses that as a guide to create a new stomach of a certain size, removing the rest. To see what your surgeon has in mind you might ask him what Bougie size he uses and if he would use one. That will give a better comparison VS other procedures. Personally if he doesn't use one I'd be concerned as that's a best practice and you're depending on him to 'eyeball' it, which is risky.