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  2. Vertical banded gastroplasty surgery - Wikipedia

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    Stomach stapling is more effective when combined with a malabsorptive technique, in which part of the digestive tract is bypassed, reducing the absorption of calories and nutrients. Combined restrictive and malabsorptive techniques are called gastric bypass techniques, of which Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery (RGB) is the most common.

  3. Gastric bypass surgery - Wikipedia

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    The stomach may simply be partitioned (like a wall between two rooms in a house or two office cubicles next to each other with a partition wall in between them—and typically by the use of surgical staples), or it may be divided into two separate/separated parts (also with staples). Total division (separate/separated parts) is usually ...

  4. Surgical staple - Wikipedia

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    Staplers are also used in vertical banded gastroplasty surgery (popularly known as "stomach stapling"). Vascular stapler for reducing warm ischemia in organ transplantation. With this model each stapler end can be mounted on donor and recipient by independent surgical teams without care for reciprocal orientation, being the maximal possible ...

  5. Bariatric surgery - Wikipedia

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    It also includes measuring the Roux limb between the distal end of the binding and the chosen length. For example, if the weight index is 40, the length should be 100cm. [13] Gastric pouch formation On the lesser curve of the stomach, a window will be opened between the second and third vessel at the perigastric border. The pouch will be formed ...

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  7. Edward E. Mason - Wikipedia

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    OHW had written papers about animal studies for determining the best stomach operation for treating peptic ulcer disease, and Mason wanted to study this subject. At the end of his training, he assisted Wangensteen in repairing a giant abdominal hernia. Many of the giant hernia repair incisions would break down if the patients did not lose weight.

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  9. Adjustable gastric band - Wikipedia

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    If the band does not surround the vertical (esophagus-to-duodenum) axis of the stomach but instead surrounds only a non-vertical (horizontal or diagonal) axis of the stomach, as by encircling only a side or portion of a side of the stomach, then the restriction on food passage will be less, weight loss will be reduced, and a painful kink in the ...