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Minimally Invasive Surgery May Be Enhanced By Z-Shaped Incision
Medical News Today - Most people operate straight through the gastric wall and then use a bunch of complex maneuvers to get the endoscope where it the internal organs and perform procedures such as a biopsy to make a better diagnosis or even perform intestinal bypass
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Despite risks, gastric-bypass surgeries soar
Orlando Sentinel - Monica Ramos lost about 200 pounds the hard way. In 2004, a doctor stapled her stomach and rerouted her intestines. A year later, Ramos collapsed in her Orlando home and was rushed to the hospital, where she needed another operation to stop internal
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698-Pound Man Dies After Stomach Surgery
PhysOrg - Doctors and nurses stand beside obesity patient Carlos Marroquin during a gastric bypass surgery in Guatemala City, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007. Marroquin died hours after the surgery of a heart attack. (AP Photo//Herlindo Zet/Siglo 21) (AP) — A man who
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Food ‘addicts’ on guard at Thanksgiving
Anchorage Daily News - Another woman, who joined Food Addicts in 2006, talked about weighing 298 pounds and getting gastric bypass surgery but still not losing the weight she wanted. “The more I tried, the more out of control my eating got.” She talked about drinking half a
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The artful dodger
Arkansas Times - Rumors are he had a gastric bypass um mm i mean gallbladder surgery. I believe there is a link between Huck and the Corphealth which is contracted to do the weight loss program for state employees. Corphealth also is contracted to handle the
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Bankruptcy plan announced
Spokane Spokesman-Review - We’ve got another local story about a man who’s donating 47 pounds of food to the food bank in recognition of the fact that he’s lost 47 pounds since he had his stomach banded, a less-invasive obesity treatment that the gastric bypass surgery. We’re
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Some obese patients too heavy for post-surgery imaging
Boston Globe - More than a quarter of patients who weighed more than 450 pounds and needed imaging to diagnose a problem after gastric-bypass surgery could not get CT scans because their weight exceeded the capacity of the scanner’s table, according to Dr. Raul N
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Obesity Rates Level Off After 25 Years of Increases (Update4)
Bloomberg - Gastric Bypass The most effective method to treat obesity is bariatric surgery, the only approach shown to help patients achieve substantial, lasting weight loss, studies show. The most common surgery, gastric bypass, shrinks the stomach
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