Sleeve Gastrectomy

Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy (LSG) is a restrictive bariatric procedure which involves subtotal gastric resection of the fundus and body to create a long, tubular gastric conduit constructed along the lesser curve of the stomach. There is little long-term information available since this procedure has only been used recently as a primary weight loss surgery procedure. It was originally described as a firststage bariatric procedure followed by Roux-Y gastric bypass or duodenal switch in high risk patients. But with the benefit of low risk due to less invasiveness, ease of surgery and not being inferior in terms of sustained weight loss, surgeons have accepted LSG as a primary bariatric procedure [1-3].