ALEXANDRIA, LA--(Marketwired - Nov 3, 2015) - Dr. James Parrish, a bariatric surgeon for the Alexandria and the Natchitoches, Louisiana areas, says laparoscopic gastric sleeve surgery is performed on ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nadler and colleagues analyzed data from 105 children and adolescents who underwent laparoscopic sleeve ...

The perioperative risk is similar and low for both laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (SG) and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB); therefore, that risk should not be a deciding factor in the ...

The researchers found that the estimated mean percentage weight loss at five years was 49 and 57% after sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass, respectively. HealthDay News — For patients with morbid ...

Obese patients wanting to go under the knife to lose weight now have another option: laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. Since it made its debut in Siouxland in May, the procedure, which decreases ...

The results of a study published in the Annals of Surgery suggest that laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy should be regarded as the procedure of choice in a selected group of patients with morbid obesity ...

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass yielded slightly better weight loss at 10 years compared with laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, according to results from the randomized SLEEVEPASS study. Among 240 patients ...

The risk of developing micronutrient deficiencies after malabsorbitive weight loss surgery is well recognized, 1 being the thiamine deficiency a major determinant of the micronutrient-responsive ...

The reduction or discontinuation of antihypertensive therapy was already observed at 1 month after the surgery. During 1-year follow-up, 90 patients (63%) had the dosage of antihypertensive drugs ...