Weight loss surgery helps treat severe obesity when diet and exercise fail, offering improved health outcomes through various ...

On the other hand, gastric bypass patients had a much lower risk for needing conversion surgery (HR 0.13, 95% CI 0.11-0.14, P<0.001) to modify the initial procedure to a sleeve resection ...

Oct. 14, 2005 -- Laparoscopic (lap) Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) can be safely performed in a 23-hour outpatient setting, according to the results of a single institution experience reported in ...

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy are equally effective at reducing hepatic steatosis, with an almost complete clearance of liver fat 1 year after the surgical procedures, according ...

Research Design and Methods—In a nonblinded, single-dose pharmacokinetic study, 16 nondiabetic post–gastric bypass patients and 16 sex- and BMI-matched control subjects (mean age 40 years and ...

HOUSTON Denise Abrego-Carter is about to undergo a new procedure to help her lose weight. It's called the single-incision gastric sleeve. She said, "He guarantees me about 70-80 pounds." ...

2.3 Surgical procedures aim to help patients lose weight by restricting the size of the stomach (for example, gastric banding or sleeve gastrectomy), or by decreasing the patient's capacity to absorb ...

After gastric bypass surgery, the microbiome becomes more diverse again — yet the changes don’t reflect the microbes of a lean person, either. The first such study came out in 2009, and analyzed the ...

Gastric bypass patients were also more likely to be hospitalized for dumping syndrome (HR 1.56, 95% CI 1.12-2.17) and for psychiatric disorders (HR 1.12, 95% CI 1.00-1.24).