Laparoscopic Better Than Open Gastric Bypass for Morbid Obesity

I had to sign up as a med student to read this on Medscape, but it is worth doing so. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/472856?mpid=27158

Excellent article. My surgeon had told me the importance of doing it lap with an experienced lap surgeon when I first consulted with him and was not sure that I wanted to travel from FL to Bklyn for the surgery. I wish we could put this in the library here. Louise

Cut & Paste is a wonderful thing.... Laparoscopic Better Than Open Gastric Bypass for Morbid Obesity CME News Author: Laurie Barclay, MD CME Author: Désirée Lie, MD, MSEd Authors and Disclosures To earn CME credit, read the news brief, the paragraphs that follow, and answer the questions below. Release Date: April 5, 2004; Valid for credit through April 5, 2005 Credits Available Physicians - up to 0.25 AMA PRA category 1 credit(s) April 5, 2004 -- Laparoscopic gastric bypass is better than open gastric bypass for morbid obesity, according to the results of a randomized prospective trial published in the April issue of the Annals of Surgery. The editorialist calls this procedure a major advance in bariatric surgery. "Gastric bypass is one of the most commonly acknowledged surgical techniques for the management of morbid obesity," write Juan A. Luján, MD, PhD, at Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca in Murcia, Spain, and colleagues. "It is usually performed as an open surgery procedure, although now some groups perform it via the laparoscopic approach." Between June 1999 and January 2002, 104 patients diagnosed with morbid obesity were randomized to treatment with gastric bypass via the open approach (OGBP) or gastric bypass via the laparoscopic approach (LGBP). Mean operating time was shorter in the LGBP group than in the OGBP group (186.4 minutes [range, 125-290 minutes] vs. 201.7 minutes [range, 129-310 minutes]; P

Guess I didn't quite get the whole thing... Oh well.. sorry about that.

I hope the whole story cut & paste correctly April 5, 2004 -- Laparoscopic gastric bypass is better than open gastric bypass for morbid obesity, according to the results of a randomized prospective trial published in the April issue of the Annals of Surgery. The editorialist calls this procedure a major advance in bariatric surgery. "Gastric bypass is one of the most commonly acknowledged surgical techniques for the management of morbid obesity," write Juan A. Luján, MD, PhD, at Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca in Murcia, Spain, and colleagues. "It is usually performed as an open surgery procedure, although now some groups perform it via the laparoscopic approach." Between June 1999 and January 2002, 104 patients diagnosed with morbid obesity were randomized to treatment with gastric bypass via the open approach (OGBP) or gastric bypass via the laparoscopic approach (LGBP). Mean operating time was shorter in the LGBP group than in the OGBP group (186.4 minutes [range, 125-290 minutes] vs. 201.7 minutes [range, 129-310 minutes]; P

LMAO didn't work for me either, I tried.

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