The California Technology Assessment Forum (CTAF) has been requested to review the scientific evidence for the use of sleeve gastrectomy (SG) also known as vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG ...

30-day reoperation rate was 1.14% in Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and 1.16% in sleeve gastrectomy. Major complication rate in Roux-en-Y gastric bypass resulted higher than in sleeve gastrectomy ( 4,26 ...

After removing the stomach, the surgeon connects the esophagus to the small bowel. Sleeve gastrectomy is a treatment for obesity. The procedure involves removing around 80% of the stomach ...

This surgery can change your whole life, and for many people will save their lives. Your life will improve in ways you cannot imagine." The sleeve gastrectomy involves removing a large part of the ...

Private admissions for bariatric surgery declined last year for the first time since 2020, a report from the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) found.1 The analysis looked at four bariatric ...

A closer look at robotic bariatric surgery after a woman lost 10 kg following AIIMS Rishikesh's first such successful ...

Shannon Meenan Browse from Londonderry was 32 when she died in August. The mother-of-four travelled for a gastric sleeve operation 18 months ago but, according to her father, got sick almost ...

B ack in the early 2000s, Gastric Band Surgery (LAP-Band) was seen as the new frontier in weight loss. However, by 2019, it ...

It’s been about two months since Chelsi Russell, 29, of Palmetto, had robotic sleeve gastrectomy (“gastric sleeve”) surgery* ...