'Banded bypass': the way to go?
| Autor: | Pier Paolo Cutolo, Luigi Angrisani, Giampaolo Formisano |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Angrisani, Luigi, Cutolo, PIER PAOLO, Formisano, Giampaolo |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Novel technique
Male medicine.medical_specialty Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Gastric bypass Gastric Bypass Obesity Morbid bovine pericardial strips Weight regain medicine Humans Nutrition and Dietetics Pericardial patch business.industry Gastric Bypa Mean age Nausea Surgery Abdominal Pain Obesity Morbid Settore MED/18 - Chirurgia Generale Female business Pericardium |
| Popis: | To the editor:We read with great interest the paper by Moon et al. de-scribing their experience with a novel technique of laparo-scopic banded Roux-en-Y using a bovine pericardial patch(Vascugard, Synovis, St. Paul, MN, USA) to improve theresults and prevent weight regain [1]. Although definitivedata proving the benefit of banding vs unbanded standardRoux-en-Y gastric bypass are not available as yet [2], weshare authors’ view on the mechanism of action of pre-anastomotic ring. We experienced a similar technique on asmaller group of patients from December 2009, 11 primarycase and one revision for weight regain (mean age, 40.5 years; mean preoperative weight, 119.6 kg; mean preop-erative BMI, 44.6 kg/m |
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