Palm Beach County

• Sleeve Gastrectomy’s Benefits

  Posted in: Blog, Gastric Sleeve, Sleeve Gastrectomy, Gastric Bypass | Tags: palm beach county | Posted on: 06-Apr-2017

  

  
  

  Obese patients who have laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy keep the weight off in the long run, researchers found. In a single-center study, patients who underwent the procedure lost an average 57.4% of excessive body mass index (BMI) over 5 years, Ralph Peterli, MD, of Claraspital in Basel in Switzerland, and colleagues reported online in the journal […]

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• The Nuts and Bolts of Gastric Sleeve Surgery

  Posted in: Blog, Gastric Sleeve | Tags: palm beach county | Posted on: 06-Apr-2017

  Bariatric surgery describes a series of operations on the gastrointestinal system that helps obese persons lose weight. It works either by restricting the patient’s amount of food intake, by altering the body’s ability to absorb ingested food, or both. The first gastric bypass was performed in 1969. However, this and other bariatric surgeries didn’t gain […]

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