Bariatric surgery on an obese patient. There is no statistically significant difference in weight loss at 5 years after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy vs laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in ...

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 ...

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 results of a study published in the Annals of Surgery suggest that laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy should be regarded as the procedure of choice in a selected group of patients with morbid obesity ...

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 ...

Obese patients wanting to go under the knife to lose weight now have another option: laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. Since it made its debut in Siouxland in May, the procedure, which decreases ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nadler and colleagues analyzed data from 105 children and adolescents who underwent laparoscopic sleeve ...

Laparoscopic sleeve mastectomy is a surgical weight-loss procedure in which a large portion of the stomach is removed and the stomach is reduced to 15% of its original size. The surgery is performed ...

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 reduction or discontinuation of antihypertensive therapy was already observed at 1 month after the surgery. During 1-year follow-up, 90 patients (63%) had the dosage of antihypertensive drugs ...

Morbid obesity is often called the first global epidemic of the twenty-first century [1]. As in all epidemics, obesity raises wide concerns and represents a great challenge for current medical ...