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NEW!Sleeve gastrectomy is a new surgical technique for morbid obesity offered at the Centre for Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery. Obesity has emerged as one of the biggest health threats of the century. Being overweight raises the risk of heart diseases, diabetes and stroke. It may also be associated with liver diseases (fatty liver), cancer, depression and sleep apnoea. *Sleeve gastrectomy has been shown to be as effective as gastric bypass in inducing remission of type II diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome. *Vidal J, et al. Type 2 diabetes mellitus and the metabolic syndrome following sleeve gastrectomy and in severely obese subjects. Obesity Surgery: 18 (9);1077-1082.

NEW! Scarless Surgery now available using technique of Transluminal Surgery (Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery)

NEW! Metabolic Surgery : Centre for Advance Laparoscopic Surgery is pleased to offer a new service - Metabolic Surgery for morbid obesity which is also very helpful in type II diabetes mellitus.

Laparoscopic surgery, also known as minimally invasive surgery(MIS) or key-hole surgery, is an established technique of performing surgery since the late 1980s. The main difference between MIS and conventional surgery is that long painful incisions are avoided. Instead, small 0.5 and 1 cm puncture wounds (thus 'key-hole' surgery) are used to perform the operation. By viewing through a special telescope called the laparoscope (thus, the term 'laparoscopic surgery'), the surgeon have a clear magnified view of the internal organs during the entire procedure.

The centre has doctors and nurses specially trained in the US and Europe in this special branch of surgery. With the focus on MIS, patients who come to the centre are assured that only the best and latest techniques and equipment are used.

With the wounds being much smaller, there are many advantages to the patient.

These advantages include:
	Less post-operative pain	Able to move about soon after surgery
	In many cases, no need to stay in hospital	Able to return to work faster
	Able to return to normal activities faster	Less risk of chest infection
	Less risk of venous thrombosis in the legs	Less need to take pain-killers
	If hospital stay is required, it is usually short (1-2 days)	More cost effective for some procedures, such as treatment of gallstones

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Acute Appendicitis		Diseases of the Colon
Gallstones Removal		Gastric Banding
Treatment for Acid Reflux		Groin (Inguinal) Hernia

Procedures routinely done in the CALS include:
	Removal of the appendix (appendectomy)
	Treatment of gallstones (cholecystectomy)
	Treatment of stones in the bile duct
	Treatment for acid reflux (fundoplication)
	Weight reduction surgery (adjustable gastric banding)
	Treatment of colon infection or colon cancer (colectomy)
	Treatment of stomach ulcers (vagotomy)
	Treatment of stomach tumours (partial gastrectomy)
	Treatment of small intestine diseases (bowel resection)
	Treatment of abdominal adhesions (adhesiolysis)
	Treatment of varicose veins
	Removal of diseased spleen (splenectomy)
	Removal of diseased adrenal (adrenalectomy)
	Investigation of unexplained abdominal pain (diagnostic laparoscopy)
	Treatment of Morbid Obesity