title: [Laparoscopic Gastric Plication: a new surgery for the treatment of morbid obesity].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Laparoscopic Gastric Plication is a new technique derived from sleeve gastrectomy. Plication of the greater curvature produces a restrictive mechanism that causes weight loss. The results of the first cases where this technique has been applied in this hospital are presented.
  
  
  METHODS
  A review was made of patients operated on in our hospital between November 2009 and December 2010. Plication of the gastric greater curvature was performed under general anaesthetic and by laparoscopy using 3 lines of sutures and with an orogastric probe as a guide. The results of the morbidity, mortality and weight loss are presented.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 13 patients were operated on (7 women). The maximum body mass index (BMI) varied between 37.11 kg/m² and 51.22 kg/m² at the time of the operation. The most frequently found morbidity was nausea and vomiting. Two patients required further surgery due intractable vomiting and total dysphagia; in one the plication unfolded, and in the second it was converted into vertical gastrectomy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Laparoscopic Gastric Plication is a new surgical technique which gives equivalent short-term results as vertical gastrectomy. It is a reproducible and reversible technique with results and indications still to be validated.
authors.affiliation: Servei de Cirurgia General i de l'Aparell Digestiu, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, España.
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pujol Gebelli
authors.forename: Amador
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: García Ruiz de Gordejuela
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Casajoana Badía
authors.forename: Lluis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Secanella Medayo
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vicens Morton
authors.forename: Carles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Masdevall Noguera
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D015391:Gastroplasty / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000601:surgery*