Dear Readers:

I have some great news to share with you as we finish the year 2010. The 10-member United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee voted overwhelmingly to recommend the agency grant the request from Allergan Inc. (Irvine, California) to market its Lap-Band device to individuals with a body mass index (BMI) between 30 and 35kg/m2 Read the rest of this article »

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Goodbye to the BMI

Dear Bariatric Times Editor:
At last—we finally have federal recognition that access to bariatric surgery should no longer be limited by an arbitrary body mass index (BMI=kg/m2)! On December 6, 2010, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel voted 8 to 2 in favor of approving an expanded indication for an implantable adjustable gastric band (Lap-Band Adjustable Gastric Banding System, Allergan, Inc., Irvine California) to be used for weight reduction in patients with a BMI of at least 30kg/m2 and less than 40kg/m2. Read the rest of this article »

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by Amir Mehran, MD, and Taylor Ruggiero

Author Affiliation: Dr. Mehran and Ms. Ruggiero are from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Surgery, Los Angeles, California.

Financial Disclosure: Dr. Mehran and Ms. Ruggiero report no conflicts of interest relevant to the content of this article.

Bariatric Times. 2010;7(12):8–11 Read the rest of this article »

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First Bariatric Allied Health Symposium: Overview of Obesity and Bariatric Surgery
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, July 16–17, 2010

by Jacqueline McCartney, RN, RM, CNOR, CBN, and Angelica Garcia, CST
Author Affiliation: Ms. McCartney is the Bariatric Coordinator, Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Operating Room, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, Florida. Ms. Garcia is the Surgical Technician, Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Operating Room, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, Florida.

Bariatric Times. 2010;7(12):12 Read the rest of this article »

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Ask the Experts: Dilemmas in Bariatric Surgery

This ongoing column is dedicated to providing information to our readers on various dilemmas in bariatric surgery. We invite questions from our readers. The answers are provided by experts in the field.

This Month’s Dilemma: Severe Abdominal Pain 24 Hours after Conversion of Sleeve Gastrectomy to Gastric Bypass Read the rest of this article »

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This is a CE-accredited article. A PDF of instructions and post-test are available here.

by Shannon Michael Gallagher, BA; William Charney, DOH;
and Laurie D. McGinley, RN, MS, CNS-BC, APN, CBN Read the rest of this article »

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by Jennifer Traub, RD, CNSC

Author Affiliation: Ms. Traub is a Clinical Dietitian at Hurley Bariatric Center, Flint, Michigan.
Funding: No funding was provided for the preparation of this article.
Financial Disclosure: Ms. Traub reports no conflicts of interest relevant to the content of this article.

Bariatric Times. 2010;7(12):24–26 Read the rest of this article »

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