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Best Practice Guidelines for Sleeve Gastrectomy
An international panel of leading bariatric surgeons has reached consensus on several essential aspects of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, including patient selection, proper surgical technique, and prevention and management of complications. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is a relatively new primary weight loss procedure that has quickly gained in popularity due to its excellent weight loss outcomes, [...]
Read the full article →Gaining Weight to Qualify For Weight Loss Surgery
For some individuals, the path to qualifying for weight loss surgery involves gaining weight. In any sense of rationality, this approach seems counterproductive – why put on the pounds when the ultimate goal is to take off excess weight? Unless you have been in this situation, it may be difficult to understand what it is [...]
Read the full article →FDA Panel Votes to Lower BMI Criteria for Lap-Band Surgery
On December 3, 2010, a panel of Food and Drug Administration advisers voted in favor of lowering the body mass index criteria for Lap-Band surgery. If the panel’s recommendation is accepted by the FDA, millions more obese American could qualify for this weight loss procedure. Under current federal guidelines, the Lap-Band is limited to patients [...]
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