Below you will find the results of 277 bariatric surgery patients operated on by Stephan Myers, MD, FACS at Riverside Methodist Hospital. Each patient was seen in our office in follow up 1 year after their operation where the following information was obtained.
I would like to caution you before you make too much of this information.
First, there are only 25 patients who had a gastric sleeve operation and had 1 year follow up at the time these numbers were tallied. Therefore there is less certainty about the gastric sleeve results. In fact there are so few patients in several categories to make any conclusions. For example note that there are only two patients that had stress incontinence in the gastric sleeve category and both had resolution of this problem. More numbers will undoubtedly show many patients will not resolve this medical problem.
Second, there is a definite bias in these results since patients with diabetes and severe acid reflux most often choose a gastric bypass since this procedure is the most effective operation to resolve these problems. Therefore, patients with less severe diabetes and reflux often choose one of the other operations but since their disease is less severe it is unfair to compare the numbers between operations.
You are welcome to this raw information but please understand that this is not comparing “apples to apples” and this not statistically valid for comparison between the three operations.
Key:
LRYGB ---Laparoscopic Roux en-Y gastric bypass
Sleeve ---Laparoscopic Gastric sleeve procedure
Band ---Adjustable gastric band procedure
N= ---Number of cases in each category
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