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The most commonly performed weight-loss operation worldwide: it creates a narrow sleeve-shaped stomach that limits food intake and reduces hunger hormones, improving diabetes and other conditions.

A proven weight-loss and metabolic surgery that reduces stomach size and reroutes the small intestine, improving type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and reflux.

The most powerful standard weight-loss operation, combining a sleeve gastrectomy with an intestinal bypass for durable long-term weight loss and high rates of diabetes remission.

A simplified, single-anastomosis version of the duodenal switch combining a sleeve with one intestinal bypass, with more weight loss and diabetes remission than gastric bypass.

Revisional surgery corrects, converts or reverses a previous weight-loss operation that has caused complications, stopped controlling weight, or led to problems like reflux.