BARIATRIC SURGERY TOOL
BMI & EXPECTED WEIGHT LOSS CALCULATOR
Calculate Your BMI and Discover Which Bariatric Surgery is Best For You. This tool will provide expected weight losses based on your current height, weight, duration, procedure and more.
Which Bariatric Surgery is Best:
- Body Mass Index 30+
- Physical problems that result from excess weight with adverse effects on day-to-day activities
- Failure of other non-surgical treatment modalities with the risk of obesity-associated morbidity and mortality.
- Do you want a procedure that is reversible?
- Is your BMI high?
- What is your excess weight loss target?
- Do you have any other disease that makes you a high-risk patient for a particular procedure?
For those with BMI greater than 50kgm-2 and desire to get the maximum weight loss possible, Biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch (BPD-DS) may be the best bariatric surgery for them. This procedure limits the stomach capacity and also reduces absorption of nutrient from the intestine. Up to 78% of the excess weight can be lost within 12-18months. The drawback of this procedure is that it is irreversible, has the highest rate of complications and is also the most expensive bariatric surgery in most centers. Patients are often placed on nutritional supplements for life. Therefore, most surgeons prefer to go for it as the last option when others have failed.
For obese patients with heartburn due to gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD), gastric bypass surgery may be the best bariatric surgery for them. It has been shown by different studies that Roux-en-Y gastric bypass results in symptoms improvement in those with GERD. The weight loss is substantial only second to what is obtained after BPD-DS.
For us, the best bariatric surgery should have a minimal alteration of the digestive tract anatomy, satisfactory weight loss, fewer complications, meager mortality rate, optimal improvement/reversal of comorbidities, affordable and low failure rate. Gastric sleeve surgery offers almost all these benefits. It involves the resection of the stomach to limit food intake, the intestine is left undisturbed, and the complication rate is low. The estimated weight loss is usually about 60% of excess weight. Although nutritional supplements may be required after the surgery, it is short-term.
In conclusion, which bariatric surgery is best for you, is a question that can only be answered by your doctor after a thorough evaluation of your clinical status and consideration of your optimal goal.