This patient fact sheet will focus on the 2 most common forms of bariatric surgery — sleeve gastrectomy and RYGB — which account for about 90% of all MBS operations performed globally.

Bariatric surgery serves as a method of weight loss that alters the digestive system, subsequently making it challenging for the body to absorb certain nutrients, including vitamin B12. Patients ...

A Gwynedd woman died during a gastric sleeve operation in Turkey ... "Despite all the interventions the patient was confirmed as having passed away." Once Mrs Savage's body was repatriated ...

There is limited outcome data on patients with obesity and left ventricular assist devices (LVADs). Our institution has used a concomitant procedure that implants a gastric sleeve at the same time as ...

YOUNG people with severe obesity who underwent weight-loss surgery at age 19 or younger continued to see sustained weight loss 10 years later, according to recent research. The USA-based team also ...

Patients currently using these drugs may need re-evaluation ... "I was at the end of my rope.” For her, that meant bariatric sleeve surgery, a procedure that reduces the size of the stomach to limit ...

1 Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 2 Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Introduction The efficacy of bariatric ...

Your weight loss may provide positive results on the scale, but you still may not like what you see in the mirror. Excess skin is a problem for bariatric patients who lose weight ... particularly ...

Gastric sleeve and gastric bypass are weight loss surgeries that help you eat less by reducing the size of your stomach. They have several key differences in benefits, risks, and recovery.