In longer-term follow-up, the researchers found that in the gastric banding group, 0.2% of patients died, about 12% were hospitalized again, and about 14% had one or more subsequent interventions.

The University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) has successfully conducted Ghana’s first laparoscopic bariatric surgery, a significant breakthrough in the country’s medical landscape and efforts to ...

Angrisani L et al.: Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding versus laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: 5 year results of a prospective randomized trial. Surg Obes Relat Disord, in press ...

Cost-effectiveness analysis of laparoscopic gastric bypass, adjustable gastric banding, and nonoperative weight loss interventions. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2008;41 (1):26-32. 29.

His story is not atypical, however. Virginia Steele told Eyewitness News she feels stronger and more confident than ever after losing 70 pounds since her gastric bypass surgery in May 2016.

ORLANDO (November 1, 2004)--Surgeons at Western Pennsylvania Hospital report that laparoscopic surgery for obesity, known as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, effectively improves unhealthy conditions ...

April 24, 2007 (Las Vegas) -- Concomitant cholecystectomy during laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) for gallbladder pathology is safe, feasible, and avoids subjecting patients to a ...

The study involved 100 morbidly obese people who underwent Lap-Band surgery. These patients were matched by sex, race, age and weight with 100 patients who underwent gastric bypass.

Laparoscopic gastric bypass (LGB) surgery with resultant weight loss improves urinary incontinence (UI) symptoms and quality of life in morbidly obese women, according to a report in Surgery for ...

American Physiological Society. "Lap Band Gastric Bypass Surgery Improves Insulin Resistance." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 8 May 2007. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 05 / 070501075127.htm>.

To evaluate early changes in glycemia, insulin physiology and gut hormone responses to an easily tolerated and slowly ingested solid, low-carbohydrate mixed meal test (MMT) following laparoscopic ...

All of the bypass surgeries were performed by expert surgeons in high-volume weight loss centers. "In the gastric bypass patients, about 86% of patients successfully lost more than 40 percent of ...