Bariatric surgery is an effective long-term treatment for patients who suffer from morbid obesity, the incidence of which is increasing in North America. Laparoscopic gastric bypass and laparoscopic ...

Newswise — The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) today announced its support of recent policy changes by Aetna Inc. and United Healthcare. The national health insurance ...

(HealthDay)—Surgical glue is safe and cost-effective, compared to standard stapling, during laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, according to a study published online March 21 in the Journal of Evaluation ...

A single-patient case report describes an early gastric leak after sleeve gastrectomy managed with an over-the-scope clip and staged laparoscopic drainage, followed by feeding, discharge and two ...

The perioperative risk is similar and low for both laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (SG) and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB); therefore, that risk should not be a deciding factor in the ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Two new studies help better characterize the short- and long-term outcomes for laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, which in recent years has become the favored and most commonly ...

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass yielded slightly better weight loss at 10 years compared with laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, according to results from the randomized SLEEVEPASS study. Among 240 patients ...

The use of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy has increased steadily over the past 10 years. A recent evaluation of its effectiveness by Carlin and colleagues suggests that this type of bariatric surgery ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Revisional endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty outperformed ...

The researchers found that the estimated mean percentage weight loss at five years was 49 and 57% after sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass, respectively. HealthDay News — For patients with morbid ...

Patients who underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) showed significant decreases in epicardial fat thickness (EFT), according to a prospective studypublished inAnnals of Medicine. Epicardial ...