Vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid obesity: weight loss at short and long-term follow up.
A standardized vertical banded gastroplasty (VBG) was carried out by the one surgeon on 60 consecutive morbidly obese patients. All patients were followed at 4 week intervals for 1.5 years. Long-term follow up was carried out at medians 5.7 and 9.6 years. All patients had significant weight loss at 1.5 years. However, at long-term follow up, despite an apparently intact gastric restrictive procedure, only 40% of patients had maintained their weight loss. Sixty per cent had regained significant weight and 31% had returned to or were above their pre-operative weight level.
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Department of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery and TPN, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia.
D015331:Cohort Studies; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D015391:Gastroplasty / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D015431:Weight Loss