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Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: Technique and Outcomes

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Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is not only an accepted stand-alone procedure for morbid obesity, but it has become the most frequently practiced bariatric operation in the world. Its technique is becoming more standardized and adjusted to evidence. The surgical technique practiced by the authors is described and explained.

LSG has demonstrated to be a surgical technique that compares well with gastric bypass, considered the gold standard in bariatric surgery. LSG is not only a restrictive procedure with results obtained by the mere reduction of stomach size. It produces a significant weight loss that can be maintained over time, with adequate control of comorbidities and a low rate of complications and deaths. It is, in the view of authors, the first option of treatment in what should be considered a chronic and incurable disease that, like other similar conditions, should be treated with therapies of progressive complexity.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, North Miami Beach, FL, USA

    Natan Zundel

  2. Surgery and Anatomy, Hospital Universitario Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, Universidad de los Andes School of Medicine, Bogotá, Colombia

    Juan D. Hernandez R.

  3. Department of Surgery, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

    Michel Gagner

  4. Department of Surgery, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Michel Gagner

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  1. Department of Surgery, Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA, USA

    Ninh T. Nguyen

  2. Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Stacy A. Brethauer

  3. Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery Division, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    John M. Morton

  4. Bariatric Surgery, Metabolic and Bariatric Care, CHI Memorial Hospital, Chattanooga, TN, USA

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  5. Department of General Surgery, The Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA

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Zundel, N., Hernandez R., J.D., Gagner, M. (2020). Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: Technique and Outcomes. In: Nguyen, N., Brethauer, S., Morton, J., Ponce, J., Rosenthal, R. (eds) The ASMBS Textbook of Bariatric Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27021-6_13

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