Title

Bariatric surgery at VA Puget Sound health care

VHA health service name and description
Patient friendly name
Weight loss surgery
Description

Bariatric surgery is an approach to help you improve your health and quality of life by losing weight.

Type of care
Specialty care
Health Service API ID
bariatricSurgery
This is a required Vet Center service
No
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VAMC system description

Bariatric surgery, also called weight-loss surgery, reduces the size of your stomach and small intestine to limit the amount of food you can eat or absorb. Bariatric surgery can be done in several ways, like:

  • Gastric bypass, which shrinks your stomach size and re-routes your digestive system, so you don’t absorb as much food
  • Sleeve gastrectomy, which removes part of your stomach, leaving only a slender “sleeve” that holds less food