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Medical assessment prior to gastroplasty: indications and contraindications
, 1996 peer reviewedBecause of the common failure of the various medical procedures used for the treatment of morbid obesity, surgeons have searched alternatives among which gastroplasty appears to offer now the best efficacy/safety ratio.
Scheen, André
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Hand-assisted laparoscopic vertical banded gastroplasty: report of a series.
, 2000 HYPOTHESIS: Hand-assisted laparoscopic vertical banded gastroplasty is technically feasible and has weight loss and morbidity outcomes similar to those of the standard open technique.
Gerhart, C D
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Technical Points in Vertical Gastroplasty for Morbid Obesity.
, 1992 The success of vertical gastroplasty may be jeopardized by gastric leakage or ulceration due to failure of the technique. Reports of band erosion and staple-line leakage have led us to seek technical improvements to reduce technical failures. We describe
Whitely, GS +4 more
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Lengthening gastroplasty for managing gastro-esophageal reflux.
, 2007 The diagnosis of short esophagus can be made only in operating room with a combined surgical and endoscopic measurament of the distance between the gastro-esophageal junction and the diaphragm, and only after extending mobilization of the mediastinal ...
MATTIOLI, SANDRO, LUGARESI, MARIALUISA
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Hand-assisted laparoscopic vertical banded gastroplasty. Initial report
, 1997 Laparoscopic approaches to surgery for morbid obesity offer to reduce the morbidity associated with conventional weight reduction surgery. This paper describes a hand-assisted laparoscopic technique for vertical banded gastroplasty, a method which ...
Watson, D., Game, P.
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Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty: the learning curve
Endoscopy International Open, 2017 Background and study aims Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) is gaining traction as a minimally invasive bariatric treatment. Concern that the learning curve may be slow, even among those proficient in endoscopic suturing, is a barrier to widespread ...
Christine Hill +11 more
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An ambulant porcine model of acid reflux used to evaluate endoscopic gastroplasty
, 1999 BACKGROUNDThere is a lack of suitable models for testing of therapeutic procedures for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. Endoscopic sewing methods might allow the development of a new less invasive surgical approach to treatment of gastrointestinal ...
C P Swain +5 more
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Surgical management of the failed gastroplasty
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 1986 Gastroplasty has been used in surgical management of reflux for 25 years. The creation of a gastric tube before fundoplication complicates further corrective procedures should the original operation fail. Experience has been gained with 51 patients, 34 having partial fundoplication gastroplasty and 17 having total fundoplication, who have had major ...
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Endoscopic sleeve Gastroplasty Efficacy (ENvISaGE): Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty versus Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy [PDF]
, 2019 The endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG), new to Australia, is a minimally invasive procedure designed to mimic some of the effects of the laparoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (LSG).
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, 1998 peer reviewedWe have compared severely obese patients (body mass index > 35 kg m-2) undergoing laparoscopic or open gastroplasty (n = 15 in each group) to determine if laparoscopy results in any benefit in the obese. Postoperative pain, measured on a 100-
Hinque, V. L. +4 more
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