Background: Laparoscopic gastrectomy has been proposed as a procedure to reduce the morbidity of gastric cancer surgery. Modified Billroth II (BII) reconstruction with a side to side loop ...

Totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy (TLDG) has been increasingly adopted for the treatment of gastric cancer. Both Billroth-II with Braun (B-IIB) reconstruction and Roux-en-Y (R-Y) reconstruction ...

Propensity-score-matched analysis of a multi-institutional dataset to compare the postoperative complications after distal gastrectomy between Billroth I and Roux-en-Y. This is an ASCO Meeting ...

Type 2 diabetes remission was achieved by 75% of adults who had gastric bypass. Diabetes recurrence was more likely for adults who underwent sleeve gastrectomy. Perspective from Vance L.

2.3 Surgical procedures aim to help patients lose weight by restricting the size of the stomach (for example, gastric banding or sleeve gastrectomy), or by decreasing the patient's capacity to absorb ...

Long-term results from randomized, controlled trials that compare medical therapy with surgical therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes are limited. We assessed outcomes 5 years after 150 ...