title: Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding: an attractive option.
abstract: Bariatric surgery is the only effective treatment producing sustained weight loss and reduction in comorbidities in the morbidly obese. Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) has evolved considerably in techniques of insertion and band management since the initial descriptions in the early 1990s. Major advantages of LAGB include lower perioperative morbidity and mortality, adjust-ability, and reversibility. Although weight loss occurs more slowly than after gastric bypass, end results are comparable.
authors.affiliation: Division of Gastrointestinal and Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, TX 75039, USA. avid.provost@utsouthwestern.edu
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Provost
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D015897:Comorbidity; D015390:Gastric Bypass / Q000379:methods* / Q000401:mortality; D015391:Gastroplasty / Q000379:methods* / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012307:Risk Factors; D015431:Weight Loss