Medically reviewed by Qin Rao, MD Gastric sleeve and gastric bypass are two types of weight loss surgery. They are effective ...

4.8% for laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, and 7.8% for open Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. By contrast, the LABS-1 researchers analyzed data from patients treated by 33 different ...

In Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, we make a small “pouch” out of the stomach ... This leads to weight loss without stress because you will not be as hungry as before the surgery. This procedure is done by ...

Gabourey Sidibe underwent laparoscopic bariatric surgery last May, as she reveals in her first memoir — This Is Just My Face — excerpted exclusively in the new issue of PEOPLE. PEOPLE caught ...

As robotic cholecystectomy, also known as gallbladder removal, becomes increasingly common, researchers have identified ...

The first weight loss surgery was performed in 1953. Gastric bypass was developed in 1966 and revolutionized by the minimally invasive laparoscopic approach in 1994. Treating obesity should ...

running their own independent inpatient general surgery service and staffing their own weekly outpatient clinic. It is anticipated that fellows will learn to master laparoscopic and robotic gastric ...

Dr. Alan Wittgrove, a world-renowned bariatric surgeon and Del Mar resident, was honored April 12 by his peers at the ...

Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) is a new non-surgical bariatric procedure that achieves a similar effect as gastric sleeve surgery. ESG requires no incisions or cutting into the stomach – the ...

adequate control of hyperglycemia and utilization of more laparoscopic methods for surgery. Cefazolin is the preferred agent for surgical prophylaxis in bariatric procedures above or including the ...

4.8% for laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, and 7.8% for open Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. ...the release of gut peptides seems to improve glycemic control independent of weight ...