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06.07.2021 | Letter to Editor/LED Reply
Letter to the Editor: Do Not Throw the Band Out with the Bath Water
verfasst von:
Richard Welbourn, James P. Byrne
Erschienen in:
Obesity Surgery
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Ausgabe 12/2021
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Excerpt
Chiappetta and colleagues highlight some of the challenges of gastric banding surgery and propose a “gastric band removal schedule” for patients who develop long-term intolerance or device problems with their gastric bands. They do not suggest that patients with good weight loss and working bands should have them removed [
1]. The authors are persuaded by the declining popularity of gastric banding worldwide [
2], high reoperation rates for patients with technical problems, and high removal rates for patients developing obstructive symptoms, regurgitation, and insufficient weight loss. As the letter stimulates ongoing discussion about procedure choice between patients and their bariatric teams, the advantages of gastric banding are worth stating. …