Abstract Purpose of Review Although bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment of
severe obesity, a proportion of patients experience clinically significant weight regain (WR) …

The development of these updated guidelines was commissioned by the AACE, TOS, and
ASMBS Board of Directors and adheres to the AACE 2010 protocol for standardized …

Background For the purpose of building best practice guidelines, an international expert
panel was surveyed in 2014 and compared with the 2011 Sleeve Gastrectomy Consensus …

Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) is a commonly performed bariatric procedure. Weight regain
following SG is a significant issue. Yet the defining, reporting and understanding of this …

Background The laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is now the most common bariatric
operation in the United States and has become an established procedure in the …

Objective: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) has been proposed as an effective
alternative to the current standard procedure, laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass …

Objective The study compared laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) staple-line leak rates
of 4 prevalent surgical options: no reinforcement, oversewing, nonabsorbable bovine …

Background Several studies have been investigated to find the long-term effect of bariatric
surgery on weight loss; nevertheless, a meta-analysis can detailedly demonstrate the effect …

Background With promising short-term results, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (SG) has
become the second most frequently performed bariatric procedure worldwide. Aside from a …

Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) has gained enormous popularity both as a first-stage procedure in
high-risk super-obese patients and as a stand-alone procedure. The objective of this study …