CBS Miami: Focusing on You — Bariatric Surgery at the University of Miami Health System

In this UHealth-sponsored Focusing on You segment on CBS Miami, Dr. Nestor de la Cruz-Muñoz, then chief of the Division of Bariatric Surgery at UHealth, explained how his team chooses among the gastric balloon, sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass.

Using a patient whose abdominal wall hernia made the sleeve the most logical option, he described weighing prior surgeries, current medical conditions and the patient’s own goals. He called bariatric surgery the most fulfilling work of his career because it gives patients a second chance at life.