Gastric bypass surgery is performed to help morbidly obese patients lose significant amounts of weight.
A revolutionary surgical approach, allowing for incisionless surgery, is the next step in the evolution of minimally invasive surgery.
Sleeve gastrectomy is a weight loss procedure in which a large part of the stomach known as the greater curve is surgically removed to restrict food intake.
LAP-BAND® is an adjustable gastric banding system used to facilitate gradual weight loss in morbidly obese patients.
Monday, May 11th, 2009
Obesity surgery-related complications in the United States fell by 21 percent between 2001 and 2006. These dramatic results were based on an analysis of more than 9,500 patients under age 65 who had bariatric surgery between 2001 and 2002 and between 2005 and 2006. This study was done by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and [...]
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
There has been a glaring omission in the Clinical Practice Recommendations of the American Diabetes Association (ADA), until now. Despite numerous studies over the past decade that have shown how effective weight loss surgery is in managing diabetes, surgery has not been included in the ADA recommendations. This changed in Jan. 2009 when a section [...]
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