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Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding: evolving clinical experience.

DeMaria EJ, Jamal MK

Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery and the Obesity Surgery Program, Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia, Box 980428, Richmond, VA 23298, USA. edemaria@hsc.vcu.edu

Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) was first introduced in the early 1990s as a potentially safe, controllable, and reversible method for achieving significant weight loss in the severely obese. It is timely to review the existing data on this procedure derived from European, Australian, and American studies and compare and contrast their results. Special emphasis is placed on clinical outcomes and reported complications of LAGB. In general, international studies support use of the LAGB procedure,while American studies are generally better designed but more equivocal in their results.

Published 2 August 2005 in Surg Clin North Am, 85(4): 773-87, vii.
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