title: [10 years experience with vertical banded gastroplasty for operative therapy of morbid obesity].
abstract: Since 1985 vertical banded gastroplasty has been performed in a consecutive series of 300 morbid obese patients. Two years after operation the average weight loss was 46 kg or 67% of the initial overweight. There was one postoperative and one late death. The reintervention rate was 2% per year for the first 5 years. In the treatment of morbid obesity vertical banded gastroplasty is an effective procedure, rapid and simple to perform and without irreversible changes of the digestive tract.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgische Abteilung, A.ö. Krankenhauses Hallein, Salzburg.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hell
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D015391:Gastroplasty / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality; D012086:Reoperation; D013528:Surgical Staplers; D016019:Survival Analysis; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D015431:Weight Loss / Q000502:physiology
vernacular_title: 10 Jahre Erfahrung mit der vertikalen bandverstärkten Gastroplastik zur operativen Therapie der morbiden Adipositas.