Letter to the editor: Do not throw the band out with the bath water
Letter to the editor: Do not throw the band out with the bath water
Chiappetta and colleagues highlight some of the challenges of gastric banding surgery and propose a “gastric band removal schedule” for patients who develop long-term intolerance or device problems with their gastric bands. They do not suggest that patients with good weight loss and working bands should have them removed [1]. The authors are persuaded by the declining popularity of gastric banding worldwide [2], high reoperation rates for patients with technical problems, and high removal rates for patients developing obstructive symptoms, regurgitation, and insufficient weight loss. As the letter stimulates ongoing discussion about procedure choice between patients and their bariatric teams, the advantages of gastric banding are worth stating
Humans, Obesity, Morbid/surgery
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Welbourn, Richard
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Byrne, James P
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1 December 2021
Welbourn, Richard
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Byrne, James P
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Welbourn, Richard and Byrne, James P
(2021)
Letter to the editor: Do not throw the band out with the bath water.
Obesity Surgery, 31 (12), .
(doi:10.1007/s11695-021-05558-9).
Abstract
Chiappetta and colleagues highlight some of the challenges of gastric banding surgery and propose a “gastric band removal schedule” for patients who develop long-term intolerance or device problems with their gastric bands. They do not suggest that patients with good weight loss and working bands should have them removed [1]. The authors are persuaded by the declining popularity of gastric banding worldwide [2], high reoperation rates for patients with technical problems, and high removal rates for patients developing obstructive symptoms, regurgitation, and insufficient weight loss. As the letter stimulates ongoing discussion about procedure choice between patients and their bariatric teams, the advantages of gastric banding are worth stating
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e-pub ahead of print date: 6 July 2021
Published date: 1 December 2021
Keywords:
Humans, Obesity, Morbid/surgery
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/475814
ISSN: 0960-8923
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