Category: Health

Bariatric surgery – a weight loss surgery- is becoming an increasingly popular option for patients who are obese and diabetic. It not only helps to reduce weight and resolve diabetes, it also helps patients with arthritis, snoring, infertility substantially. The dramatic results and benefits it produces is the major reason for its popularity. The method… Continue reading A Newer Bariatric Surgery – Simpler, Safer and more Effective

What is a Hiatus hernia ? In a hiatus hernia, a part of the stomach that should normally be in the abdomen protrudes through the diaphragm into the chest (See picture). This hernia allows food and acid abnormally to travel upwards and may produce symptoms.   What are the symptoms in Hiatus hernia ? These… Continue reading Surgery for Hiatus Hernia

A woman needs to preserve her beauty and health even more when she turns forty. This is because her body – and sometimes her mind as most partners would know- is changing at this age. She should be more informedand careful towards these changes taking place in her body because they affect her health in… Continue reading Obesity in Women above forty years

In a recent research called the STAMPEDE trial– from Cleveland Clinic, USA,a comparison was done between diabetic patients managed on medicines versus bariatric surgery. The patients’ chosen were obese diabetics including the mildly obese. One group of patients was treated by drugs and diet under the intensive supervision of an expert team of physicians. The… Continue reading Research proves yet again that Bariatric surgery works better than medicines in Diabetes!

Last year two boys Ramesh and Piyush (names changed) aged 19 and 22 attended our obesity clinic in Belle Vue. They were severely obese with body weights of 135 and 130 kgs respectively. They had been trying to lose weight in vain for the last few years. They had heard and read about bariatric surgery… Continue reading HOW TO DECIDE WHETHER ONE NEEDS SURGERY FOR SEVERE OBESITY

Colorectal surgery (surgery of food pipes) is done for various diseases such as cancers, inflammatory bowel disease, diverticulitis and rectal prolapse. The good news is that unlike in the past all these surgeries can now be done by laparoscopy.  This translates into less pain, less scar, more comfort and decreased hospital stay. There is now… Continue reading COLORECTAL AND ANAL SURGERY – NEWER DIRECTIONS

Why do gallstones form? Gallstones are so common in West Bengal that we can safely presume that everybody knows at least one patient who has it. It is very difficult to say what causes it and why it is so common here. A few scientific guesses are – higher body fat, infection in bile ducts,… Continue reading Gall bladder Stones – what we need to know ?

Obesity has become the most important epidemic of our times. It is responsible for many diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, snoring, arthritis, hernias, infertility, etc. Thus it is not only a cosmetic problem. Obese people try many methods to lose weight not only to look better but to be healthier. Although dieting and… Continue reading Why is the popularity of Bariatric surgery (surgery for obesity and diabetes) increasing ?

There are many reasons of having jaundice. On many occasions, jaundice is due to medical diseases like hepatitis requiring medicines only.  Sometimes however, stones, strictures (narrowing of bile duct) or tumors, blocking the channels carrying bile, can cause them.   Many bile duct stones can be removed by Endoscopy without the need for any hospital stay or… Continue reading Jaundice may be due to stones or tumors in bile duct or pancreas! Report to Gastrosurgeon early

The Occam’s Razor suggests that entities should not be multiplied endlessly. Although it is true in many situations, in some fields where evolution and progress is ongoing, this is not true. One such field is in Bariatric surgery where yet another procedure is making great promise. It goes by the name of Mini Gastric Bypass… Continue reading Mini Gastric Bypass (MGB) – A simpler, safer and more effective weight-loss surgery.