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What is Bariatric Surgery?

Bariatric surgery isn't one procedure, it's a group of them, all aimed at the same thing: real, lasting weight loss for people with obesity. Not a quick fix, not a fad, an actual medical pathway to getting healthier long term. At Mallige Hospital, this is handled by a full team, not a single surgeon working alone — surgeons, dietitians, physicians, all working together, using advanced techniques to improve your metabolic health, cut down obesity-related risks, and give you back a quality of life that excess weight tends to quietly chip away at.

Expert surgeons performing advanced bariatric surgery for safe weight loss and obesity treatment at Mallige Hospital, a trusted Bariatric Surgery Hospital in Bangalore.

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Bariatric Surgery

Gastric sleeve, gastric bypass, adjustable gastric banding — our programme offers all three, and each one gets you to the same place through a different route. Some shrink stomach capacity, others reroute digestion entirely, but either way you end up with steady weight loss, better diabetes control, and a lot less pressure on your heart over the years.

We lean on laparoscopic techniques wherever we can. Small incisions, not large ones. Less pain once it's over. A shorter stay in hospital, and honestly, a recovery timeline that beats older, open-surgery methods by a wide margin.

And surgery's really just one chapter here, not the whole book. Nutritional counselling before the procedure, behavioural therapy and long-term follow-up after it — that full loop of care is what actually makes the results stick, not just the operation itself.

Key Services

Sleeve Gastrectomy

Gastric Bypass

Adjustable Banding

Revisional Surgery

Metabolic Procedures

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So this is the one where a good chunk of your stomach, around 75 to 80%, actually gets removed. What's left behind is smaller, shaped kind of like a sleeve. Less room for food means you eat less naturally, and that's really the whole mechanism behind the weight loss here.

This surgery does two jobs at the same time, which is what makes it a bit different. A small pouch gets made from part of your stomach and hooked up directly to your small intestine, skipping over most of the stomach and the duodenum entirely. End result? You eat less, sure, but your body's also pulling fewer calories out of whatever you do eat.

A silicone band goes around the upper stomach here, forming a small pouch just above it. The part patients usually like is that it's adjustable—tighten it or loosen it later through a port, no second surgery needed if your needs change down the line.

Not every first surgery goes exactly as planned; sometimes the weight loss stalls, sometimes complications show up later. Revisional surgery is the fix for that, which could mean converting a band into a sleeve, or a sleeve into a bypass, depending entirely on what's going on.

These aren't just about the scale, they're built to tackle obesity-related conditions too, type 2 diabetes being a big one. By changing certain hormones and anatomy in the body, procedures like duodenal switch or single anastomosis gastric bypass can genuinely help manage, sometimes even reverse, conditions like that.

Depends on a few things honestly, your BMI, your overall health, whether you've already tried other ways to lose weight without much luck. Your surgeon will sit down with you at the first consultation and figure out if it's the right fit before recommending anything at all.

Hard to give one number since it really varies person to person. That said, most patients do lose a solid chunk of their excess weight within the first year, especially when they stick to the diet and lifestyle changes recommended afterward.

Depends which procedure you're talking about. Adjustable banding, yes, that one can be reversed. Gastric bypass or sleeve gastrectomy though, those are generally considered permanent, so it's worth having a proper conversation about this with your surgeon before deciding.

Usually somewhere between 1 to 3 days, give or take, depending on which procedure you're having and how recovery's going for you specifically. Laparoscopic surgery tends to mean a shorter stay compared to the older open surgery route.

Pretty much, yeah. Your stomach's smaller now so your eating habits have to shift with it, smaller portions, more thought behind what you eat. We don't just leave you to figure that out either, our team provides nutritional counselling to help make the shift easier, and that support sticks around well past the surgery itself.

Your Safety Comes First

Choosing bariatric surgery isn't a small decision, and where you have it done matters just as much as who's doing it. Our team stays with you at every stage, from your first consultation through long term follow up, that's why so many trust Mallige Hospital as the bariatric surgery hospital in Bangalore they can count on.

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