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    A laparoscopic adjustable gastric band, commonly called a lap-band, A band, or LAGB, is an inflatable silicone device placed around the top portion of...
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  • silicone band, which can be adjusted by addition or removal of saline through a port placed just under the skin, a procedure called adjustable gastric band surgery...
    67 KB (7,795 words) - 18:41, 8 July 2024
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    surgery is losing favor as more doctors begin using the adjustable gastric band. The newer adjustable band does not require cutting into the stomach and does...
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  • Gastric lavage, also commonly called stomach pumping or gastric irrigation, is the process of cleaning out the contents of the stomach using a tube. Since...
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    Adjustable gastric band Duodenal switch surgery StomaphyX—Revisional, natural orifice procedure for patients that have regained weight after gastric bypass...
    73 KB (9,044 words) - 14:16, 1 July 2024
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    dietary habits, or dilation of the stomach over time, which can require gastric sleeve revision surgery to either repair the sleeve or convert it to another...
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    preparation before surgery under anesthesia, and to extract samples of gastric liquid for analysis. If the tube is to be used for continuous drainage...
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  • banded gastroplasty surgery or "stomach stapling", the upper part of the stomach is permanently stapled to create a smaller pouch Adjustable gastric band...
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    Surveillance of Barrett's esophagus Surveillance of gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer Occasionally after gastric surgery Abnormal barium swallow or barium meal...
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    design bears the risk of false-positive result due to the pH value of the gastric biopsy when it is placed on the sensitive element. Excessive salivation...
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  • more recently – for laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB). The development of the adjustable gastric band in the mid-1980s was a watershed in...
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    phase, the gastric phase, and the intestinal phase. The first stage, the cephalic phase of digestion, begins with secretions from gastric glands in response...
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    cause food to move into the small intestine faster than normal, leading to gastric dumping syndrome. Also known as the Reichel–Polya operation, this is a...
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    Ann Wilson (category Heart (band) members)
    to the negative publicity surrounding her weight. She underwent adjustable gastric band weight-loss surgery in January 2002 after what she called "a lifelong...
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    Billroth II is often indicated in refractory peptic ulcer disease and gastric adenocarcinoma. Over the years, the Billroth II operation has been colloquially...
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  • which may limit later options for revision weight loss surgery. An adjustable gastric band is an inflatable silicone prosthetic device that is placed around...
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    Vagotomy can be used in the surgical management of peptic (duodenal and gastric) ulcer disease (PUD). Vagotomy was once commonly performed to treat and...
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    parts of the bowels. Anoscopy Endoscopy Hemorrhoids Rectal dilator Rubber band ligation Francisco Vilardell (2006), Digestive Endoscopy in the Second Millennium:...
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  • Thumbnail for Sengstaken–Blakemore tube
    the esophagus and the gastric balloon is inflated inside the stomach. A traction of 1 kg is applied to the tube so that the gastric balloon will compress...
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    Galen's theories, and in 1780 he gave experimental proof on the action of gastric juice on foodstuffs. In 1767, German Johann von Zimmermann wrote an important...
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