Research led by the Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany has ...

(HealthDay News) — The long-term outcomes of sleeve gastrectomy (SG) and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) may differ in intention-to-treat (ITT) and per protocol (PP) populations, according to a ...

Study compares laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (SG) and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) in obese patients, finding both procedures have low, comparable perioperative risks and complications ...

These findings are based on an analysis of Medicaid data from 158,186 total Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) surgery procedures performed during 2 periods: a pre-ACA period between 2007 and 2009 ...

Gastric sleeve and gastric bypass surgery are the two most common types of bariatric surgery. Both surgeries aim to reduce the size of a person’s stomach and limit the amount of food they can eat.

I am morbidly obese and am interested in Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Is this surgery performed in South Africa? If so, where can I find relevant contact details? Answer::Dear Tricia As far as I know ...

I am morbidly obese and I would like to find out if Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery is performed in South Africa. If it is, where I can I find contact details etc. Answer::Tricia, it is done in SA ...

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is a weight loss surgery that makes your stomach smaller and reroutes your intestines. You feel full faster, so you eat less. It can also affect how you absorb calories and ...

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery may be associated with greater weight loss, diabetes control and lower risk for major adverse cardiovascular events compared with sleeve gastrectomy, according to ...

By the end of the recruitment process, patients in the surgery group who underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (265 patients) represented only 13.2% of the patients in the surgery group. 16,17 In the ...