Obesity Surgery

Recommendations for Reporting Weight Loss

Mervyn Deitel, Robert J Greenstein

20th Annual Meeting of the ASBS: Program and Abstracts

Leptin and Insulin Action in Severely Obese Women

Francesco Papadia, Giuseppe M Marinari, Giovanni Camerini, Dario Civalleri, Nicola Scopinaro, Gian Franco Adami

The Impact of Bariatric Surgery on the Veterans Administration Healthcare System: A Cost Analysis

Scott F Gallagher, Magdalena Banasiak, John P Gonzalvo, Daniel P Paoli, Janice Allwood, Debra Morris, Michel M Murr, David H Shapiro

Heparin Thromboprophylaxis in Gastric Bypass Surgery

Michele F Shepherd, Terry K Rosborough, Michael L Schwartz

Treatment of Dilated Gastrojejunostomy with Sclerotherapy

Laurie Spaulding

Taking Posterior Rectus Sheath Laparoscopically to Reinforce the Gastrojejunostomy in Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

Won-Woo Kim, Michel Gagner, Laurent Biertho, Anne Waage, Brian Jacob

Laparoscopic Technique for Performing Duodenal Switch with Gastric Reduction

Robert A Rabkin, John M Rabkin, Barbara Metcalf, Myra Lazo, Michael Rossi, Lee B Lehmanbecker

Determinants of Long-Term Satisfaction after Vertical Banded Gastroplasty

Iris Shai, Yaakov Henkin, Shimon Weitzman, Itzhak Levi

The Lap-Band® System in a North American Population

S Ross Fox, Katherine M Fox, Myur S Srikanth, Roberto Rumbaut

Gastroscopic Removal of an Adjustable Gastric Band after Partial Intragastric Migration

L Regusci, Y Groebli, J L Meyer, J Walder, D Margalith, R Schneider

Repositioning the Lap-Band® for Proximal Pouch Dilatation

Marc Vertruyen

Codification of Techniques for Reoperation After Lap-Band®

Francesco Furbetta, Elisabetta Coli

Adjustable Gastric Banding in a Multicenter Study in Turkey

Halil Coskun, Alp Bozbora, Guner Ogunc, Yasin Peker

Pressure-induced Rhabdomyolysis after Bariatric Surgery

Gonzalo Torres-Villalobos, Eric Kimura, Juan Luis Mosqueda, Eduardo García-García, Guillermo Domínguez-Cherit., Miguel F Herrera

Rhabdomyolysis of Gluteal Muscles Leading to Renal Failure: A Potentially Fatal Complication of Surgery in the Morbidly Obese

David Bostanjian, Gary J Anthone, Nahid Hamoui, Peter F Crookes

Lumbar Muscle Rhabdomyolysis as a Cause of Acute Renal Failure after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

Jason P Wiltshire, Timothy Custer

Elevated Liver Enzymes as an Operative Complication of Gastric Bypass Surgery

Julie Saranita, Roy G Soto, Dan Paoli

Reasonable Solutions to Weight Regain after Gastric Bypass

Milton Owens

A Method for Treatment of Gastric Slippage after Adjustable Gastric Banding

Antonio Catona

Similarity of Magenstrasse-and-Mill and Mini-Gastric Bypass

Robert Rutledge

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