Following surgery, there were 1,651 adverse events (6.0, 4.6, and 5.7 per year after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, adjustable gastric banding, and sleeve gastrectomy, respectively).

“You’re shortening the distance that food has to travel from your stomach into your colon ... other bariatric surgeries, such as gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy, when it comes to weight ...

Gastric sleeve surgery is where a significant portion (at least 80%) of the stomach is removed, leaving only a tube-shaped stomach. The small tube-shaped stomach can only hold small amounts of ...

A NEW prospective study has found that Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) is more effective than sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) at improving gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and oesophageal physiology, ...

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy more effective for achieving ≥50 percent excess weight loss ...

Danielle Peebles, 42, weighed 28 stone when she made the journey to Turkey in June 2023 to undertake a gastric sleeve operation. She opted for the surgery abroad after being told she would have to ...

"When I eat and my stomach gets full and there's no way ... it's a long-term side effect of gastric sleeve, and they do not get the hair back. "It's really thin for life." Lucy also gets "up ...

The stomach is divided into two using a staple ... In April 2022, Rebecca headed to Turkey, alone, for her gastric sleeve. She acknowledged: “I wasn’t scared at all, I knew it was the start ...

A "vibrant and lovely" North East businesswoman who received "woeful" care after weight loss surgery died months later of multi-organ failure. Nicola Fisher, from Sunderland, turned to Spire ...