Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedure is the most frequently performed bariatric surgery for the extremely obese in USA. However, the information about the effects of racial/ethnic differences, comorbidities, and medication use on weight loss outcomes is limited. The objectives of this study were to ...
Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA Yong Choi Northeast Georgia Physicians Group Surgical Associates, Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Braselton, GA, USA Sujata Gill Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA Bruce Schirmer Dig...
As the obesity trend continues, surgical solutions have become more prominent. Gastric bypass surgery has been an option for patients since the 1960s and is the most commonly performed operation for weight loss in the United States. Since the introduction of the LAP-BAND System in 2001, an inc...
Minimally-invasive surgeons at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston statistically analyzed operative times, length of hospital stay and complications in 605 patients who either underwent laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass or the same procedure with the assistance of a robot at Memorial ...
First off, its a surgery of the stomach, the gastric sleeve surgeon will eliminate almost 80 percent of patient’s stomach. This reshapes the stomach into a tube like shape hence where the surgery name comes from sleeve surgery. This is a laparoscopic surgery, meaning the surgeon will only ...
(BW) and food intake. Whole-body composition was measured in unanesthetized rats before and after surgery using an EchoMRI 100 whole-body composition analyzer (EchoMRI, Houston, TX, USA). Two weeks after surgery, an oral glucose tolerance test after 16 h fasting was performed as previously ...
DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030-2399, USA Received 2 August 2007, Revised 9 November 2007, Accepted 9 November 2007, Available online 19 March 2008 Abstract Acute gastric volvulus associated with congenital diaphragmatic hernia is an unusual surgical ...
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S1637Clinical Success of Endoscopic Therapies for Management of Gastrojejunal Strictures Following Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysisdoi:10.14309/01.ajg.0000956188.06107.c3Achintya D. SinghMetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH;...
To determine the body mass index (BMI) located at the fulcrum of success and failure in a prospective study conducted at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. On average, our patients whose percentage of excess weight loss (%EWL) was >50% at 1 year had a significantly...