Post Bariatric Surgery
After your weight loss surgery, your surgeon will have you come back for follow up visits to ensure you have are healing well and do not have any surgical complications. After this initial follow up period however, most post bariatric surgery patients do not know where to turn for medical care from someone who understands their surgery and problems related to it. Dr. S.Y. Ghodsian has been treating post bariatric surgery medical complications for years and has worked with the top surgeons in the field of bariatrics to maintain their patients healthy and fit long after surgery. Few doctors in the country have the experience of Dr. S.Y. Ghodsian in this field and it is for this reason other physicians refer their post bariatric surgery patients to be evaluated by Dr. S.Y. Ghodsian. Below is a list of post bariatric surgery services offered by Dr. S.Y. Ghodsian:
- Total health maintenance after surgery and prevention of medical complications
- Laboratory monitoring of nutrition, vitamins, and electrolytes
- Post operative weight loss management
- Prevention and management of weight gain after surgery
- Techniques for post operative weight loss success
- Nutrition counseling and support
- Fitness support
- Alternative vitamin therapy for those who cannot tolerate oral vitamins
- Intravenous iron therapy for those who cannot tolerate oral iron
- Psycho-social therapy and behavioral modification to maintain weight loss and prevent gain back
- Monitoring of cardiac, kidney, liver and bone health after surgery
- Support group meetings for those who have had weight loss surgery
- Evaluation, management, and adjustment of all preoperative medications for diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol
- Protein deficiency evaluation and treatment
- Anemia and Iron deficiency evaluation and treatment
- Vitamin deficiency evaluation and treatment
- Excessive weight loss intervention
- Nausea and vomiting treatment
- Dumping syndrome prevention
- Sleep apnea and snoring evaluation and treatment
- Evaluation and treatment of lung disorders including COPD and asthma
- Osteoporosis treatment & prevention of bone loss after surgery
- Arthritis and back pain treatment after weight loss surgery
