Tissue Welding for Bariatric Surgery
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Kara Della Vecchia
07/09/2009
With obesity rates on the rise across the U.S., the demand for bariatric surgery is greater than ever before. According to the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), an estimated 220,000 patients with morbid obesity underwent bariatric surgery in 2008, up from 12,775 in 1998.
Surgeons are increasingly using laparoscopic versus open techniques to perform these procedures. In 2005, an estimated 74.5 percent of gastric bypass patients underwent laparoscopic gastric bypass (LGB) surgery versus open surgery. Researchers have found that patients who undergo LGB surgery have shorter hospital stays and experience fewer postoperative complications compared with patients who undergo open procedures.
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