title: Early clinical efficacy of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy as a bariatric surgery for obese patients: a uni-center report in China.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the experience with laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy as a bariatric surgery in our center.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty obese patients were followed up for 1 year after receiving laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy as a bariatric surgery in our center from January 2009 to October 2010, during which their general conditions, complications, and improvement of obesity-related diseases were assessed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 20 patients, 19 underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and 1 underwent open sleeve gastrectomy with no death occurred. The average weight loss was 36.4±10.0 kg, the average BMI decreased from 46.1±11.5 to 33.6±5.6 kg/m2, and the excess weight loss was 55.9%±14.2% one year after the operation. The majority of obesity-related diseases were improved. In one year after the operation, excellent, good, fairly good and poor scores were achieved in 2 (10.0%), 8 (40.0%), 7 (35.0%), and 3 patients (15.0%), respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy as a bariatric surgery is a safe and feasible procedure for obesity with excellent short-term effects. More studies with a long-term follow-up are needed to validate its benefits.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Affiliated Shanghai No.9 People's Hospital of Shanghai Jiaotong University Medical School, Shanghai 200011, China.
authors.forename: Jian Jun
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Bing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yong Kang
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Zhi Cheng
authors.initials: ZC
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D050110:Bariatric Surgery / Q000379:methods; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D005743:Gastrectomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D015431:Weight Loss; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Bariatric surgery; Gastrectomy; Laparoscope; Obesity