The Patient's Guide to Weight Loss Surgery
Subtitle: Everything You Need To Know About Gastric Bypass and Bariatric Surgery
Contributors: S. Ross Md Fox (Foreword, Introduction)
Publisher: Hatherleigh Press
Published: April 22, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781578261659
Subjects: Popular medicine; Medical; Popular works; Healthy Living; Consumer Health; Weight Loss; Surgery; Health & Fitness / Diseases / General; Gastric bypass; Surgery - General; Obesity
First sentence: Currently, four major types of stomach surgery exist: the Vertical Banded Gastroplasty (VBG), the Gastric Bypass (GBP), also called the Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RNY), the Adjustable Gastric Band (AGB), and the Bileopancreatic Diversion (BPD).