Welcome to Advanced BMI Weight Loss Surgery in Lebanon.
Advanced BMI Weight Loss Surgery Lebanon Team includes, weight loss surgeons, endocrinologists, a gastro-enterologist, an experienced nutritionist in weight loss nutrition, an expert physical trainer, a psychologist who understand the challenges of long-term weight loss, and a bariatric surgery clinical coordinator with extensive experience helping patients get through the process of weight loss surgery.
At Advanced BMI, we offer free Informational Seminars, open to the general public. Each seminar provides prospective patients with information about weight loss surgery and the Advanced-BMI Weight Loss Programs. Our team will describe details of the surgical procedures, our comprehensive program, the medical effects of untreated morbid obesity, and the lifestyle changes that accompany weight loss surgery. There will be time allotted for questions and answers.
Read on to learn more about Advanced BMI Team:
- Dr Nagi Jean Safa, Certified Weight Loss Surgeon
- Dr Abdo Alam, Pulmonologist, Critical Care Medicine
- Dr Khaled Ahmad, General Surgery and Weight Loss Surgery
- Dr Georges Ghoussoub, Dermatologist
- Dr David Abou Khalil, Physical Therapist
- Jessica Daou, Certified Nurse, Laser Technician
- Nathalie Nehme, Patient Coordinator
Meet with Dr Nagi Jean Safa in LEBANON. Renowned Bariatric Surgeon
Certified Weight Loss Surgeon – Former Surgeon at the University of Montreal – Author of books about weight loss surgery.
Dr Nagi Jean Safa has dedicated his professional career to the treatment of morbid obesity. He is a Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeon (Weight-Loss Surgeon) at the Advanced BMI in Lebanon and at the Sacred Heart Hospital of Montreal, and holds an academic appointment at the University of Montreal. Furthermore, he is involved in the training of residents and surgical fellows on how to perform advanced laparoscopic obesity surgery. Throughout his practice, Dr Safa performed more than two thousand laparoscopic procedures, including Roux en Y gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy, gastric banding, gastric plication and many other abdominal surgery procedures.
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Obesity is destructive to a person’s health. Someone who has a BMI higher than 35 kg/m2 has twice more risks to die early than a person with a normal BMI. This consequence manifests 8 to 19 years of having obesity.) Overweight is a precipitating factor for many grave, lethal diseases, comprising type 2 Diabetes, many cancers, high blood pressure, heart disease, obstructive sleep apnea, and strokes. Research demonstrates that the risk of death from these illness become normal after bariatric surgery. No longer than the first six months following the surgery, patients frequently no longer need to take medications for many of these diseases. Besides, weight loss will increase the fertility rate in women.
To be qualified for bariatric surgery, we do not consider age anymore. Many studies show that bariatric surgery could be beneficial to adolescent. In addition, we do not fix a superior limit of age, as long as your health is in good condition to sustain general anesthesia. Your body mass index (BMI) is a significant factor. If you BMI is higher than 30 and you tried many times to decrease your weight with an appropriate diet and exercise program with no success, you could be a candidate for bariatric surgery. Diabetes, blood hypertension, high cholesterol, obstructive sleep apnea and many other factors will influence the surgeon’s decision. The more your heath is at risk, the faster you will be considered as a candidate for surgery. It is important to keep in mind that you should not get pregnant the first 12 months after bariatric surgery. During this period, you could experience some nutritional deficiencies that could be harmful to your baby.
Nowadays, medical treatment for obese patients become much more secure. With the latest advanced in laparoscopic surgery and anesthetic procedures, the risk of bariatric surgery has dropped down significantly. Most patients will recover from surgery within a week. The hospital stay is no longer than one or two nights. Patients who undergo the laparoscopic gastric banding could leave the same day. For the laparoscopic gastric plication, gastric sleeve and gastric bypass, it is better the stay overnight.
Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy, Laparoscopic Gastric Plication, Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass, Laparoscopic Gastric Banding, Laparoscopic Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch, SINGLE INCISION GASTRIC SLEEVE (SILS), Revisional Bariatric Surgery, Diabetes Surgery
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Male performing weight loss surgery.
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Female performing weight loss surgery.
