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.
Liver Transplant Surgeon Dr Susan Lim describes Laparoscopic surgery, also known as minimally invasive surgery(MIS) or key-hole surgery, as 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.
