LAP-BAND® Adjustable Gastric Banding System Has Fewer Complications than Gastric Bypass

Filed in archive Diagnostics , Treatment by Gloria Gamat on February 27, 2007

Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) and laparoscopic Roux-en Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) are two bariatric surgical procedures performed in the United States for the treatment of morbid obesity.

LAP-BAND® System is the only FDA-approved adjustable implant device for individualized weight loss under the LAGB procedure.

Clinical data of a 5-year study (led by researchers from Legacy Good Samaritan Obesity Institute) comparing the safety of the two procedures (LAGB and LRYGB) revealed that the LAP-BAND® System results in significantly fewer complications, shorter operative times, and shorter hospital stays compared to LRYGB.

Find more details from the full report.

[Photo Credit: Lucille Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford]

Related Entries:

LAP-BAND® Procedure Has Significant Benefits over Laparoscop... - 05 July 2006
Gastric Bypass Becoming Common Treatment For Diabetes - 30 October 2006
How Gastric Bypass Surgery Gets Rid of Diabetes: Welsh Medic... - 04 June 2007
Verdict: Too fat to adopt! - 27 August 2007

« Regular High Caffeine Int... | Main | Menniet: Computer-control... »

Permalink: LAP-BAND® Adjustable Gastric Banding System Has Fewer Complications than Gastric Bypass

Tags: gastric bypass bariatric surgical procedures system gastric+bypass gastric+banding

Trackback: http://publish.creative-weblogging.com/publish/mt-tb.pl/55613

Addthis

Ask

Blinklist

del.icio.us

Digg

Fark

Facebook

Google

Lycos

Ma.gnolia

Mr Wong

Netscape

Netvousz

Newsvine

StumbleUpon

Slashdot

Tailrank

Technorati

Wink

Yahoo

Vote for LAP-BAND® Adjustable Gastric Banding System Has Fewer Complications than Gastric Bypass:

Currently 8.33/10
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Rating: 8.33 out of 3 vote(s) cast.

Add your response to LAP-BAND® Adjustable Gastric Banding System Has Fewer Complications than Gastric Bypass:

Name: *

Email: (will never be shown)*

URL:

(* marked fields are required)

Notify me if more comments appear?

Subscribe to Straightfromthedoc newsletter? (Newsletters are sent out weekly).

Remember me

Security Code: *
(Please help us to sort out spam.)

Please enter your comment here: (Sorry, no HTML is allowed - URLs will be made clickable automatically if you add http:// to your URL.)

We welcome your comments, however all comments are moderated. Offensive or off-topic comments will be deleted and not displayed.

Share It

Use the search to look for other interesting posts

Contributors (Last 90 days)

Creative Weblogging (9)

This site has 1564 entries and is powered by Creative Weblogging since July 2005.

Our Editors recommend

Disclaimer

Some of the contents of this site are protected Creative Weblogging Inc. 2004-2010.

Check out our Sponsored Blogs!

Business Computer Blog (UK)

Testimonials

'Thanks, for a very interesting and informative Blog.'

'Thanks for doing this; it's a terrific site.'

'I don't know...but why I don't find such informative and profitable blogs so often, I suspect blogging world is becoming so small that we can't find such lucrative blogs like this one.'

Other blogs in the same channel in the Creative Weblogging Network: Health & Life Sciences

RSS	See all blog subscribe options
Google	What is RSS?
Yahoo!
Addthis
Bloglines
Newsletter
Twitter	Follow us on Twitter!