Weight loss surgeries: A description of Vertical Banded Gastroplasty

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Vertical Banded Gastroplasty involves stapling the stomach to make a small pouch so that patient cannot eat as much according a a paper from researchers at Yale University.

The average weight loss after one year is 42 percent according to one study.

“[W]eight loss was poor in patients who continued to maintain a high-caloric intake in spite of the volume restriction,” the paper notes.

“In addition, many of the [Vertical Banded Gastroplasty] patients did not correct their comorbidities, especially diabetes mellitus,” they continue.

Long-term weight loss also seems to be poor according to a study from Sweden which found that after ten years the average weight loss was only 16.5 percent.

REFERENCE

Pannala R, Kidd M, Modlin I. Surgery for obesity: Panacea or pandora’s box? Dig Surg. 2006 Apr 20, 23(1-2):1-11.

AUTHOR’S CONTACT INFORMATION

R. Pannala
Department of Internal Medicine
Bridgeport Hospital/Yale University
Bridgeport, Conn
USA

Irvin M. Modlin, MD, PhD, FRCS
Yale University School of Medicine
POB 208062
New Haven, CT 06520
USA
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