Cirugía de la Obesidad - Dr. Alberto Daccach Plaza - Guayaquil

TERMS:

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

Absorption: Process by which nutrients are absorbed by the lower small intestine taking them through the blood flow.

Adipose: Fat, related to fatty tissues

Anastomosis: Surgical union of two structures

Gastrointestinal anastomosis: Upper union of a gastric surgery

Bariatric: Pertaining to weight or weight reduction

Cardiovascular: Pertinent to heart and blood vessels

Colon: Large intestine that begins at the extreme end of the small intestine and ends at the rectum.

Comorbids: Related illnesses (i.e. arthritis or hypertension) in habilitating conditions related to clinical morbid obesity, or health conditions related to obesity.

Contraindications: Any symptom or circumstance that is opposed to any other treatment that would otherwise be viable (i.e. alcoholism; drug addiction, severe depression, psychopathic disorders related to personality.

Criteria: Defines potential candidates for surgical procedures.

Gastric Derivation: Operation designed to transform into non-functional a part of the stomach.

Segmented Gastric Derivation: Surgery as a tool to manage clinically morbid obesity.

Gastric Derivation or Gastric Bypass with Y de Roux: Surgical procedure that ties the new stomach with the upper small intestines in a Y manner.

Type 2 Diabetes: Metabolic disease of insulin and glucose

Digestion: Process by which the stomach and the upper small intestine decompose food.

Dilation: Enlargement process in one step or of the anastomosis.

Duodenum: The first 12-inch extension of the small intestine, immediately under the stomach. Biliary and pancreatic liquids flow towards the duodenum through ducts from the liver and the pancreas.

Illness: A lesion process to health and to longevity or both.

Stricture: Reduction of anastomosis or sections of the intestine; often related to ulcers or wounds.

Gastric: Related to the stomach.

Gastrointestinal: Related to the intestine or to the stomach.

Gastroplasty: Operation related to morbid obesity, by which the stomach receives a new form.

Genetic: Pertinent to characteristics related to heredity.

Staples: Sterile surgical implements used to join tissue; generally they are permanent and made from stainless steel or titanium.

GVB: Vertical Gastroplasty with gastric ring or band: a type of surgical procedure for the clinical treatment of obesity. Through this procedure, the stomach acquires a new form and size.

Hernia: Weakness of the abdominal wall, which produces a detectable protuberance

Herniation: Process by which a hernia is formed.

Hyperosmolarity: Presence of high concentration substances that might produce an empty syndrome

Hypertension: Increase in blood pressure

Ileum: Portion of the small intestine, it is 10 feet long and it is in charge of absorption.

IMC: Corporal Mass Index, a method to calculate the degree of over w eight, based on weight and the body surface.

Consensus Report of NIH: Summary of meetings related to clinically morbid obesity and the evaluation and treatment of obesity. Published by NIH

Kilogram: Weight measurement equivalent to 2, 2 pounds.

Laparoscopy: Method of visualizing and treatment of intra-abdominal problems in a minimum invasive manner.

Morbid: Pertaining to illnesses that increase death risk.

Multidisciplinary: Equipment utilized for the evaluation and treatment of clinically morbid obesity, it includes evaluation and physiological treatment by surgical means, internal medicine, nutritional, psychiatric and exercise.

NIH: Abbreviation (in English) that corresponds to the National Institute for Health.

Obesity: Pertaining to over weight o fatty tissue

Clinically morbid obesity: Body Mass Index of 40 or more, equivalent approximately to 100 pounds of over weight; a level of weight that represents a risk for patients. Also known as Morbid Obesity

Morbid Obesity: Body mass index of 40 or more, equivalent to approximately 100 or more pounds of over weight, a level of weight that puts patient's life in risk.

Obstructions: Thinning of an anastomosis or a segment of the gastrointestinal track, which slows down the normal massage of nutrients o waste materials.

Pulmonary: Pertaining to lungs.

Psychotherapy: Evaluation and treatment of mental disorders.

Syndrome to drain: Distress which is manifested by nausea, dizziness, stomach ache or diarrhea, related to the ingestion of sweets, liquids with a high content of calories or dairy products.

Therapy: Treatment

Yeyuno: Portion of the small intestine, it is 10 feet long and in charge of digestion.