A surgeon at Baltimore's Sinai Hospital is turning heads for how he's using Twitter. He has said he will ask an associate to "tweet" updates of his gastrectomy surgery on a 362-pound patient.
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The 40-year-old man weighs 362 pounds. His ideal weight would be 159 pounds, said Dr. Alex Gandas, head of Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery at Sinai Hospital.
The procedure involves removing as much as 85 percent of the stomach to create a small sleeve that holds food and creates a feeling of fullness with a small meal, Gandas said. Unlike a gastric bypass, the sleeve procedure involves no rerouting of the small bowel, and no plastic devices used in stomach banding, Gandas said.
The gastric sleeve is faster and less complicated than gastric bypass and is safer for patients suffering severe heart ailments, he said.
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