Bariatric Surgery

Having surgery to produce weight loss is a serious decision. Anyone thinking about having this surgery should know what it involves. Answers to the following questions may help patients decide whether weight-loss surgery is right...

Body Mass Index (BMI) is a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters. A high BMI can be an indicator of high body fatness. BMI can be used to screen for...

Who should consider bariatric revision surgery? Patients who have had previous bariatric surgery or gastric banding surgery occasionally require revision.* This may be required if the patient is having problems or is not happy with...

Bariatric surgery is an operation on the stomach and/or intestines that helps patients with extreme obesity to lose weight. Severe obesity is a chronic condition that is hard to treat with diet and exercise alone....

This October FBMC joined the Dallas 2019 Walk from Obesity sponsored by American Society For Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) Foundation. Why We Walk In the United States, more than 93 million individuals are effected...

Gastric bypass, or Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) surgery at First Baptist Medical Center is generally performed laparoscopically: The surgeon makes only small incisions through which the surgery is performed with the aid of a special device...