More than half of your stomach is removed, leaving a thin vertical sleeve that is about the size and shape of a banana. Surgical staples keep your new stomach closed. Because part of your stomach has ...

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass led to greater weight loss than sleeve gastrectomy in patients with obesity at 10 years, according ...

The California Technology Assessment Forum (CTAF) has been requested to review the scientific evidence for the use of sleeve gastrectomy ... alternative to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, the bariatric ...

A long-term study finds that Roux-en-Y gastric bypass leads to greater sustained weight loss and better GERD management than ...

Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) is a new non-surgical bariatric procedure that achieves a similar effect as gastric sleeve surgery. ESG requires no incisions or cutting into the stomach – the ...

Gastric sleeve surgery doesn’t reroute your intestines like gastric ... Research shows that any weight loss surgery usually increases fertility for men and women. But, specialists recommend that women ...

New research shows that men with gastric ulcers are at an increased risk of pancreatic cancer, and that the presence of a duodenal ulcer is not associated with pancreatic cancer. “This suggests ...

The long-term outcomes of sleeve gastrectomy (SG) and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) may differ in intention-to-treat (ITT) ...