Happy Failed Lapband Patient after Conversion to MGB

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Uploaded by on Jun 25, 2007

Dr. Rutledge DrR@clos.net, www.clos.net 702-376-3446. Mini-Gastric Bypass LapBand patient talks about Failed LapBand and 4 years of suffering pain and vomiting with the LapBand. He describes the relief after removal of the LapBand.

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  • Stunning New Research: "Placement of a gastric band appears to be a disservice"

    "The placement of a gastric band appears to be a disservice to many morbidly obese patients and therefore, in the current culture of evidence based medicine, the prevalent use of laparoscopic gastric banding can no longer be justified. " Dr. Guller from Toronto, Canada. Furthermore, they state: "There is mounting and convincing evidence that gastric banding is suboptimal at best. "

  • To DrR: "Hi...I have had the Lapband for 3 years and I have lost 32 pounds ..."

    ** Read it and Weep;

    Go to the internet;

    Google "Lap Band Failure" and

    Read over a Quarter of a Million stories of People with LapBand Failures!

    Wait another Year and the Number will rise by the Hundreds of thousands

  • Poll Results FROM Web: "Lap Band Talk Forum":Reflux Poll

    Lap-Band Complications Receive and provide support for Lap-Band Complications

    Banded at least 6 months and I've NEVER had problems with reflux. 26%

    Banded at least 6 months and I've had problems with reflux 74%!!!

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  • Google "Lap Band Failure" and

    1 week ago there were 219,000 hits with LapBand Failures!

    1/15/2009 Google "failed lapband" increased to 397,000 citations...

  • Obes Surg. 2006 Feb Revision of failed lap band to gastric bypass. van Wageningen B et al, The most common bariatric surgical operation in Europe, lapband, has a high incidence of long-term complications and insufficient weight loss. We investigated 47 revisions to gastric bypass (GBP). The GBP, mean operating time was 3 hr and hospital stay was 7 days. Complications occurred in 17%. CONCLUSION: Conversion of LapBand to GBP is needed to treat complications of LapBand.

  • Obes Surg. 2006 Feb Revision of failed lap band to gastric bypass. van Wageningen B et al, The most common bariatric surgical operation in Europe, lapband, has a high incidence of long-term complications and insufficient weight loss. We investigated 47 revisions to gastric bypass (GBP). The GBP, mean operating time was 3 hr and hospital stay was 7 days. Complications occurred in 17%. CONCLUSION: Conversion of LapBand to GBP is needed to treat complications of LapBand.

  • Obes Surg. 2006 Feb Revision of failed lap band to gastric bypass. van Wageningen B et al, The most common bariatric surgical operation in Europe, lapband, has a high incidence of long-term complications and insufficient weight loss. We investigated 47 revisions to gastric bypass (GBP). The GBP, mean operating time was 3 hr and hospital stay was 7 days. Complications occurred in 17%. CONCLUSION: Conversion of LapBand to GBP is needed to treat complications of LapBand.

  • Surgery. 2002 Jun;131(6):625 Lap-band failure conversion to gastric bypass Medical College of Virginia Study patients who had failed LapBand converted to a gastric bypass. 50% of LapBand have been removed. Median time to conversion after LapBand was 38 months. The LapBand is associated with a high frequency of inadequate weight loss. Conversion to gastric bypass in this subset of patients is technically challenging but results in superior weight loss in a shorter time period.

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