Stomach surgeries
The modern surgical community has developed a huge variety of operations performed on the stomach. It should be understood that any stomach surgery often aims to eliminate the cause of the underlying disease causing the negative symptoms. Some of the major gastric surgeries may include:
- Various types of resections (removal of any part of the stomach);
- Various types of vagotomies (excision of the vagus nerve that approaches the stomach);
- Placement of stomas (removal of part of the gastric mucosa to the surface of the patient’s body);
- Gastrectomies (complete removal of the stomach);
- Various anastomoses (formation of connections between organs that are not normally connected);
- Gastric ballooning (filling part of the stomach with a balloon);
- Gastric banding (putting a tight bandage on the upper stomach);
- And many others.
In many cases, the type of gastric surgery to be performed by the surgeon depends on the type of pathology that led to the patient. For example, Ballooning and banding are mostly performed to help a person deal with obesity. Resections and gastrectomies are most commonly performed for advanced cancerous tumours. Anastomoses are performed in case the part of the stomach or intestine has to be removed.
Symptoms
- 1 Nausea
- 2 Heartburn
- 3 A heavy feeling in the stomach
- 4 Poor appetite
- 5 Obesity
