The California Technology Assessment Forum (CTAF) has been requested to review the scientific evidence for the use of sleeve gastrectomy (SG) also known as vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG ...

Ese Milan was shocked when a doctor told her she weighed over 400 pounds at age 22. She started working out but chose surgery to really shed pounds.

More than half of your stomach is removed, leaving a thin vertical sleeve that is about the size and ... Your life will improve in ways you cannot imagine." The sleeve gastrectomy involves removing a ...

After removing the stomach, the surgeon connects the esophagus to the small bowel. Sleeve gastrectomy is a treatment for obesity. The procedure involves removing around 80% of the stomach ...

I had a vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG) and lost 112 pounds in the first year and half post-operation. I maintained that ...

Major complication rate in Roux-en-Y gastric bypass resulted higher than in sleeve gastrectomy ... bypass or the vertical gastric resection in the robotic sleeve gastrectomy).