Gastric bypass bariatric surgery can lead to real weight loss results. Learn about risks, recovery and how it compares to sleeve gastrectomy.
Gastric Sleeve, also known as sleeve gastrectomy is a highly effective surgical treatment that helps people lose a significant amount of weight. It has also been used as a staging procedure before gastric bypass or duodenal switch in high-risk patients. However, now it is also done as a prima...
"Family members were able to lose weight comparable to being part of a medically controlled diet simply by accompanying the bariatric surgery patient to their pre- and post-operative visits," said senior author John Morton, MD, MPH, associate professor of surgery at Stanford and director of bari...