Tag: adjustable gastric band
Google Trends in Bariatric Surgery: A Disconnect Between Public Interest and Surgery Performed
by Nicholas Gonsalves, MD; Joshua Tseng, MD; Yufei Chen, MD; and Maggie Diller, MD All authors are with the Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery and Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Funding: No funding was provided for this article. Disclosures: The authors have no conflicts of interest relevant to […]
Reducing Early Hospital Readmission Rates After Bariatric Surgery
by Payal Sharma, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CBN, and Soohyun Nam, PhD, APRN, ANP-BC Ms. Sharma and Dr. Nam are with the Yale University School of Nursing in Orange, Connecticut. Funding: No funding was provided. Disclosures: The authors have no conflicts of interest relevant to the content of this article. Abstract: Bariatric surgery is a well-established […]
Bariatric Surgery and Low Back Pain
This column is written by medical students and is dedicated to reviewing the science behind obesity and bariatric surgery. Column Editor: Daniel B. Jones, MD, MS, FACS, FASMBS Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Vice Chair, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts This month: Bariatric Surgery and Low Back Pain by Victor D. Babatunde […]
Laparoscopic Revisional Bariatric Surgery
by Ricardo Cohen, MD; Marcelo Cerdan Torres, MD Drs. Cohen and Torres are from the Center for the Surgical Treatment of Morbid Obesity and Metabolic Disorders, Hospital Oswaldo Cruz and Baros Surgical Associates, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Bariatric Times. 2010;7(2):16–18
