Until recently, most hospitals offered three surgical weight loss options: gastric bypass surgery, vertical sleeve gastrectomy, and gastric band surgery. But now there’s a new, reversible procedure that provides an alternative for patients struggling with obesity. Called the vBloc Neurometabolic Therapy System, this weight-loss option is different from other popular bariatric surgeries in that[Read More]
Bariatric Buzz
Terminology … Unless You Know …
I do a lot of work on weight-loss surgery (WLS) or bariatric-surgery sites and after a little while you start to see that people use short-cuts for the most commonly used words. But if you’re a newbie and don’t know these, it can be a load of double-dutch! I was recently asked what some of these[Read More]
Patients Who Attend Follow-Up Have Better Outcomes
I’ve never quite understood why if you go ahead with surgery, often jumping all the hoops in order to qualify and then have it done, you would skip those very special appointments for after-care post-surgery. Yet I am told this happens more often than you would believe or predict. If you’re pre-op and thinking it[Read More]
Resetting The Set-Point: Is There Something To Learn From WLS?
GUEST POST: I am currently in Rio de Janeiro, speaking at the 21st World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity & Metabolic Disorders – IFSO 2016. As Lee Kaplan from Harvard University reminded the audience, obesity is a disease of energy homeostasis, where everything seems to be[Read More]
Revisional Surgery: Why Some WLS Surgery Fails
It does appear, and now it has been confirmed, that there has been an increase in revisions after bariatric surgery. Why? How many? What have been the outcomes? How can we prevent poor outcomes? These questions and are more were discussed at a recent obesity summit. It’s important that we look at failed outcomes[Read More]