Credit: Getty Images Our easy-to-read fact sheet provides an overview of weight loss surgical procedures, such as gastric sleeve and gastric bypass. Our easy-to-read fact sheets provide clinicians ...

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 ...

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Relapse-free survival (RFS) data at 5 years showed that laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) was noninferior to open distal gastrectomy (ODG) in locally advanced gastric cancer, according to ...

Sleeve gastrectomy, a procedure where surgeons remove about 80 percent of the stomach, has become the most popular method of weight-loss surgery in America, surpassing laparoscopic gastric bypass, ...

Nutritional deficiencies are common after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery. However, severe zinc deficiency is a ...

She was barely able to breathe, let alone walk. As her weight kept rising, she spent two years confined to her home, needing help to get out of bed or walk to the bathroom. Going to a doctor’s ...

Patients with early-stage gastric cancer may consider stomach-preserving surgery, as it led to better quality-of-life and nutritional outcomes in a study. Stomach-preserving surgery may improve ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Gastric bypass surgery was linked to an increased risk for nonalcohol substance use disorder compared with no ...