General information

What does bariatric surgery do?

Bariatric surgery is the surgical treatment of morbid obesity. This type of surgery is still not very well known in our country, but it is the future in the fight against obesity and type 2 diabetes.

The method is associated with drastic weight loss, while also improving and, in many cases, curing the accompanying diseases associated with obesity. These diseases include diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, asthma and other respiratory disorders, arthritis, cholesterol problems, gastroesophageal reflux disease, fatty liver disease, urinary stress incontinence, pseudotumor cerebri, and others.

In cases with a high degree of obesity, undergoing this type of surgical intervention also leads to a reduction in overall mortality. For this reason, the term "metabolic surgery" is increasingly being used.

What are the main factors of obesity and what it may cause?

There are many and different reasons for obesity, but the fact is that the number of people suffering from obesity is increasing permanently. As per data of the World Health Organization from 1980 on, obesity is triplicate in many countries from the European region, and the overweight and obesity affect 50% of the population in the bigger part of the European countries. It is found that 60% of the population in the worlds, i.e. 3.3 billion people could be with overweight (2.2 billion) or with obesity (1.1 billion) till 2030 if the last trends continue to develop.

Overweight increases drastic the risk to develop many non-contagious diseases like diabetes, hypertension, stroke, dyslipidemia, sleep apnea, cancer, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and other severe co-lesions. In the bigger part of European countries, overweight and obesity are responsible for 80% of the cases of type 2 diabetes, 35% ischemic heart disease and 55% hypertension in adults.

When surgical treatment is necessary for obesity?

Bariatric surgery is applied to people who cannot reduce body weight by diets and sport; their body mass index (BMI) is 35 and higher one and have co-lesions like metabolic syndrome, diabetes, hypertension, etc.; as well as to people who have BMI 40 but without co-lesions.

What is the intervention aim?

Generally, bariatric surgery aims only one thing – to reduce the volume of administered food and its assimilation. It is proven to be the most effective method for treatment of severely obese patients, reducing lethality and the risk to develop new co-lesions. This procedure assists also the reduction of body weight in long-term plan, which is the prerequisite for better quality of life.

Patients or their relatives are entitled to free psychological support during the hospital stay.

Contacts and get in touch with us:

VITA BASE 2 - 10 Filip Kutev Blvd, Sofia
Reception and information: +359 2 45 22 000
Mobile: +359 88 99 22 000
e-mail: info@vita.bg

And if you are interested in the issues of Bariatric and Metabolic surgery and want to communicate informally with people with such problems, or seek help and advice, as well as share past experience in this field, be sure to join our Facebook group called Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery - MBAL VITA.

Vita Bariatric Symposium

On October 25 and 26, 2019, MBAL Vita hosted the First Vita Bariatric Symposium with international participation.

The event brought together in Sofia the best of Bulgarian surgeons involved in obesity issues, prominent names from European surgery, and numerous distinguished endocrinologists, nutritionists and psychologists.

See what some of our patients say at our YouTube channel.