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  • Title: [10 years experience with vertical banded gastroplasty for operative therapy of morbid obesity].
    Author: Hell E, Lang B.
    Journal: Zentralbl Chir; 1996; 121(5):363-9. PubMed ID: 8677696.
    Abstract:
    Since 1985 vertical banded gastroplasty has been performed in a consecutive series of 300 morbid obese patients. Two years after operation the average weight loss was 46 kg or 67% of the initial overweight. There was one postoperative and one late death. The reintervention rate was 2% per year for the first 5 years. In the treatment of morbid obesity vertical banded gastroplasty is an effective procedure, rapid and simple to perform and without irreversible changes of the digestive tract.
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