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2. Gastric bypass surgery - Wikipedia

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   Gastric bypass surgery refers to a technique in which the stomach is divided into a small upper pouch and a much larger lower "remnant" pouch, where the small intestine is rearranged to connect to both. Surgeons have developed several different ways to reconnect the intestine, thus leading to several different gastric bypass procedures (GBP ...

3. Bariatric surgery - Wikipedia

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   During the late 1960s, the initiation of bariatric surgery followed the development of a procedure to bypass portions of the stomach – the gastric bypass. [ 94 ] [ 95 ] [ 96 ] Sleeve gastrectomy (SG), is one of the most popular stomach reduction surgeries and was earliest performed in 1990 as a first-stage operation of duodenal switch (DS ...

4. Management of obesity - Wikipedia

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   Weight loss surgery relies on various principles: the two most common approaches are reducing the volume of the stomach (e.g. by adjustable gastric banding and vertical banded gastroplasty), which produces an earlier sense of satiation, and reducing the length of bowel that comes into contact with food (e.g. by gastric bypass surgery or ...

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6. Ghrelin - Wikipedia

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   Gastric bypass surgery not only reduces gut capacity for food, but also lowers ghrelin levels compared to both lean people and those who lost weight through dieting. [ 62 ] [ 63 ] Studies have not clarified whether ghrelin levels return to normal in people who had gastric bypass surgery after weight loss has stabilized. [ 64 ]

7. Revision weight loss surgery - Wikipedia

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   Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is a commonly chosen revision technique, [7] particularly in patients who have not been successful in meeting their weight loss goals after stomach stapling, gastroplasty, vertical gastric banding, or laparoscopic-adjustable gastric banding. Often the prior procedure still lends itself to a revision to become a Roux-en ...