Vertical banded gastroplasty (VBG ... Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGBP) surgery. A small pouch is created by either stapling or transecting the stomach. The pouch is then connected to and empties ...

Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) is a new non-surgical bariatric ... to excess weight loss after popular bariatric procedures, like gastric sleeve surgery and gastric band surgery. Like other ...

Researchers have found evidence linking bariatric surgery to long-term changes among the microbial ... seven other women who had the size of their stomachs reduced via vertical band gastroplasty. The ...

Outcomes after vertical banded gastroplasty and biliopancreatic diversion were evaluated in two studies, and similar results to those of LAGB and gastric bypass surgery were observed. No evidence ...