Short-term outcomes for super-super obese (BMI ≥60 kg/m2) patients undergoing weight loss surgery at a high-volume bariatric surgery center: laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, laparoscopic gastric bypass, and open tubular gastric bypass

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 408-415

  Stephens, Daniel J ^a   Saunders, John K ^a   Belsley, Scott ^a   Trivedi, Amit ^a   Ewing, Douglas R ^a   Iannace, Vincent ^a   Capella, Rafael F ^a   Wasielewski, Annette ^a   Moran, S ^a   Schmidt, Hans J ^a   Ballantyne, Garth H ^a  

^a HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Bariatric surgery centers; Centers of excellence; Gastric bypass; Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding; Laparoscopic gastric bypass; Morbid obesity; Super super obesity; Surgical outcomes; Triple obesity; Tubular banded gastric bypass; Vertical banded gastroplasty Roux en Y gastric bypass; Weight loss surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROPLASTY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STEP WISE MULTIPLE REGRESSION; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRIC BYPASS; GASTROPLASTY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 43649086500     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2007.10.013     Document Type: Article

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