PET-CT SCAN
August 24, 2023
PET-CT SCAN: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW A PET-CT scan is a medical imaging test that combines two technologies, Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Computed
LAPAROSCOPIC SLEEVE SURGERY
Gastric Sleeve Surgery
Restrictive operations like gastric sleeve surgery make the stomach smaller and help people lose weight.
With a smaller stomach, you will feel full a lot quicker than you are used to. This means that you will need to make big lifelong changes in how you eat-including smaller portion sizes and different foods-in order to lose weight.
The Gastric Sleeve surgery in Dubai can be done by making a large incision in the abdomen (an open procedure) or by making several small incisions and using thin instruments and a camera to guide the surgery (laparoscopic approach), laparoscopic approach is better. More than half of your stomach is removed, leaving a thin vertical sleeve, or tube, that is about the size of a banana. Surgical staples keep your new stomach closed. Because part of your stomach has been removed, this is not reversible.
Sometimes this surgery is part of a larger approach to weight loss surgery done in several steps. If you need to lose a lot of weight before you have duodenal switch surgery, gastric sleeve surgery may be the first stage operation.
Meet Our Team
Our team of highly qualified and experienced physicians drawn from across the world
Dr. Ali Dameh
Consultant Surgeon ( Chief of Surgery) Advanced Minimally invasive Laprascopic SurgeonDr. Ali Dameh
Consultant Surgeon ( Chief of Surgery) Advanced Minimally invasive Laprascopic SurgeonDr. Ali is a distinguished physician who has received the Dubai Health Care City Distinguished Excellence Physician Award in 2019 for his exceptional contribution in promoting advanced & complex surgery services in the UAE. He is widely renowned for providing compassionate care to his patients suffering from cancer and for his expertise in performing complex surgical procedures of the Thoracic (lung and chest), Upper GI (Stomach and Esophagus), and surgical oncology (Liver, Adrenal, Solid Organs & Sarcoma) cases in Dubai and the UAE.
Dr. Nazim AL Rifai
(specialist surgeon) Minimally Invasive Surgeon - BariatricDr. Nazim AL Rifai
(specialist surgeon) Minimally Invasive Surgeon - BariatricDr. Al Rifai is an adjunct assistant professor in many international and national medical colleges. He is syrian board certified and member of royal college of surgeon in Ireland, with more than 25 years’ experience in the field of open and advanced laparoscopic surgery, and 20 years in bariatric surgery in several academic hospitals.
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