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Minimally Invasive Surgery
7945 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 280
Germantown, TN
38138-1733
901-448-6635
Fax: 901-347-8275
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1-877-328-0772
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Minimally Invasive Surgery
Weight Management Program
Obesity is a serious problem - a lifelong progressive disease of fat storage with serious medical, physical, social, psychological and economic effects. It results from a mixture of genetic problems, environmental effects, abnormal physiology and overeating.
The obesity surgery program at UT Medical Group and The Regional Medical Center (The MED) has been named an ASBS Bariatric Center of Excellence by the Surgical Review Corporation.
In order to be named an American Society for Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence, a program must meet high standards regarding facilities, training, experience, and staff support. The program must also show that its patients have excellent short and long-term results and must provide a support group for patients who have undergone surgery.
We know the frustrations, the tensions, the discrimination due to obesity-the impaired self-image and lost opportunities to participate in the physical and social fruits of life. But the problems are much greater. Consider the heart, lung, bone and joint disease, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, sleep disorders, shortened life-span and many other serious medical problems associated with obesity.
Many surgical procedures now make use of less invasive means as opposed to open surgery, a change which often results in less pain, fewer scars, and a shortened recovery time.
Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), often referred to as laparoscopic surgery, can be used with a wide variety of procedures including bariatric surgery.
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