The gastric by pass is a surgery that makes the patient feel satisfied consuming little quantity of food, which by itself, produces an important descent of weight and a change in the eating habits.

It is important to indicate that this is not an elective surgery, for any person with excess, but is indicated for people with a body mass index (BMI according to the acronyms, and results of the division of the weight by the stature to the square) greater to 40, or for who they have an BMI of 35 with associated illnesses, as arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, among others.

In Aurea, we carry out a monitoring to the patients that involves a whole team of specialists, among psychologists and nutritionists, since the patients consume smaller quantity of food, and assimilate fewer nutrients, can require the administration of vitamin supplements. Also, it is fundamental to watch the decrease of weight, in order to impede the patient to descend too much.

The effectiveness, with loss from the 70 to 80% of the excess of weight in a year, along with an important improvement in the associated illnesses, has become the gastric by pass one of the most carried out interventions. Recent investigations show that near a 90% of the diabetic obese patients that are submitted to the gastric by pass are cured completely of the illness besides having again normal levels of glicemia without any help of oral medicines or insulin injections, as well as a very important social and labor insertion.