The perioperative risk is similar and low for both laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (SG) and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB); therefore, that risk should not be a deciding factor in the ...

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 ...

The researchers found that the estimated mean percentage weight loss at five years was 49 and 57% after sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass, respectively. HealthDay News — For patients with morbid ...

Bariatric surgery on an obese patient. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy led to a statistically significant reduction in epicardial fat thickness, a marker for atherosclerosis, 12 months after surgery.

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Phase III Trial of Avelumab Maintenance After First-Line Induction Chemotherapy Versus Continuation of Chemotherapy in Patients With Gastric Cancers: Results From JAVELIN Gastric 100 In 10 experienced ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Two new studies help better characterize the short- and long-term outcomes for laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, which in recent years has become the favored and most commonly ...

The results of a study published in the Annals of Surgery suggest that laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy should be regarded as the procedure of choice in a selected group of patients with morbid obesity ...