Bariatric Surgery

HARTFORD, CT -- (Marketwire) -- 01/07/09 -- The Bariatric Center at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center is proud to offer a web cast featuring Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery.  

Courtney Mike-Wilson, of Clairton, did more than lose 136 pounds after undergoing gastric bypass surgery on Oct. 26, 2006 at the age of 18. ...  

Four years ago, he had gastric bypass surgery. Dr. Thomas Clark did the procedure at Sentara CarePlex Hospital in Hampton. "I lost about 230 pounds and have ...  

Bariatric surgery is also known as weight loss surgery. In gastric bypass surgery, the physicians do a marked reduction in the functional volume of the ...  

Now doctors say bariatric surgery can actually help reverse this serious liver problem and it can literally reverse type 2 diabetes. ...  

Gastric bypass surgery improves insulin sensitivity and glucose transport, according to a report in the December issue of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.  

In response to the growing consumer demand for weight loss surgery, the number of physicians performing these procedures has also skyrocketed, enabling unqualified doctors to infiltrate the industry. Selecting a board-certified surgeon who is a member of the American Society of Bariatric Surgery...  

By minimizing the chance of complications and future surgical revisions of gastric bypass surgery and other treatments, patients benefit from greatly ...  

Cheryl Bishop Had gastric bypass ... "I was always the chunky kid and it just got progressively worse and worse and worse until it was out of control." At 44, she weighed 350 pounds and struggled with type two ...  

Ajay Goyal, MD, FACS, and Dr. Glenn Forrester, MD, general and bariatric surgeons from the New Jersey Bariatric Center in Union, NJ, successfully performed the first LAP BAND™ in New Jersey with only ... [WebWire - Sunday, January 04, 2009]  

In the last few years, Baylor Dr. Tim Norwood has seen a rise in the number of women seeking weight loss surgery -- lap band or gastric bypass -- as an ...  

OBJECTIVE: The authors compared post–gastric bypass surgery (GBS) outcomes of patients being given active psychotropic treatment for depression, ...  

A new study published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology reveals bariatric surgery results in improvement of histopathological features of NAFLD. ...  

Bariatric surgery, when performed correctly, can help obese patients manage these conditions. The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery named ...  

Teenagers who undergo gastric bypass surgery are often immediately relieved of Type 2 diabetes, according to research published today in the journal ...