BRUSSELS — In the face of ever-increasing demand, surgical techniques enabling significant weight loss are on the rise. It is simpler and less invasive to perform anastomosis by compression with two ...

Patients who underwent biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch surgery reported high mental and physical component scores 12 years after surgery, according to recent study findings. “The ...

As some of you know, I’ve been looking into different weight loss techniques as of late. I’m currently on the Gastric Bypass Hypnosis Surgery program by Rena Greenberg, which I’ll be posting a halfway ...

According to a press release, the duodenal switch procedure is a type of surgery "that combines stomach reduction with ...

While uncontrolled diabetes is unfolding as a silent crisis in India, resulting in organ damage and failure, metabolic ...

Your small intestines are very important for maintaining good digestive health. Also called the small bowel, they absorb nutrients and fluid that you eat or drink. They also deliver waste products to ...

The criterion of success of any operation for duodenal ulcer is simple: the patient must with minimal risk have exchanged his ulcer symptoms for relative freedom from symptoms. In this benign process, ...

THE literature concerning gastrointestinal bleeding as a complication of peptic ulcer is very extensive. Many of the studies reported, however, lack documentation of bleeding, proof of the presence of ...

Pancreatic duodenal resection (Whipple's Sea Surgery), which removes tumors from the head of the pancreas, is a high-level ...