MARSURGERY, Tijuana

Dr. Miguel Angel Rojas Pineda is a gastroenterologist and general surgeon. His special areas of interest include bariatric surgery, advanced laparoscopic surgery, colon/rectal surgery and hernia surgery.
Overweight and obesity have reached nationwide epidemic proportions. Both the prevention and treatment of overweight and obesity and their associated health problems are important public health goals. The increase in obesity has led to an increase in fatty liver disease.
The recommendations to treat overweight and obesity are based on two rationales. First, overweight and obesity are associated with an increased risk of disease and death. Second, randomized controlled trials have shown that weight loss (as modest as 5 to 15 percent of excess total body weight) reduces the risk factors for at least some diseases, particularly cardiovascular disease, in the short term. Weight loss results in lower blood pressure, lower blood sugar, and improved lipid levels as well as eliminates fatty liver disease.
Studies have shown that reducing risk factors for heart disease, such as blood pressure and blood cholesterol levels, lowers death rates from heart disease and stroke.
Weight loss procedure is tne next step when diet, exercise and medication have failed.
Achieve effective, long-term weight control with Laparoscopic obesity surgery
Lap-band, sleeve gastrectomy, gastric bypass.

MARSURGERY treats a range of patients requiring surgical services, both emergent and planned. We offer expertise in general surgery and specialized surgical procedures to local, national, and international patients.
General Surgery is the basis of Surgery, and the source of all surgical specialties. It is the specialty responsible for the surgical treatment of diseases occurring in several organs and systems, namely oncological digestive diseases, endocrine diseases, metabolism and obesity-related diseases, or anatomical defects like hernias, using classic and minimally invasive techniqu