The Gastric Plication operation is a new technique for obesity control, innovative, simple and safe, which is having a great boom among patients with not very important obesities.

More and more lectures are being presented at international conferences on the good results of this intervention in moderate obesity.

The technique is very simple and is to plicate the major curvature of the stomach on itself, so that we reduce the size of the stomach to about 20% of its initial volume, with a final fit about 100 – 120 ml.

The technique is simply to plicate the major curvature of the stomach onto itself, so that we get a tubular-shaped stomach, maintaining all the usual functions of the stomach: the inlet valve, the digestive process, and the outlet. The Plicatura is in fact carried out in two phases, a first phase and a second, and inside, within the lumen of the stomach the whole mucous membrane can be correctly appreciated, so that in the event of a gastric alteration or a pathology or doubt of digestive pathology, a gastric exploration could be carried out normally.

What you get is a stomach, 20% of the usual size, approximately 100 – 120 ml, which allows you to eat what fits on a dessert plate or eventually half a plate.

Of course, the Gastric Plication operation is not as effective as the Gastric Tube operation, because that bag is not sectioned, but it is certainly effective enough for not very important obesities.

We perform the operation by Mini-Invasive Laparoscopy (single port assisted), the operation takes approximately 40 – 60 minutes and the patient has a very fast recovery, and in 24 – 48 hours the patient returns home.

As we were saying, it is an intervention in which nothing is sectioned, so the simplicity is much greater.

Furthermore, theoretically it is a reversible operation since it can be performed to restore the normal shape of the stomach, although there are no experiences on this aspect.

The operation has acceptable results in the medium term, with a weight loss between 55 – 75% of the excess weight, and in any case, it is very patient – dependent, so that better results are achieved when the patient makes an effort to change habits, take correct nutrition, do physical exercise, etc.

Even so, there is no experience of more than 5 – 6 years about this operation.

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