REVISIONAL BARIATRICS

Please register for the Surgery of Foregut Symposium by clicking the link below... Obesity is a chronic disease that requires lifelong management. The best treatment for obesity (class I or greater) with medical comorbidities involves surgical intervention. Despite the safety and long-term efficacy of our procedures, partial response and/or complications mandate additional procedures and therapies consistent with ethical patient care. Once only relegated to few, highly experienced individuals or centers, re-operative surgery is becoming more commonplace as the numbers and variability of procedures increase. Unfortunately, because of the inability to control for the many confounding variables, definitive studies comparing different interventions are rare. For the surgeon who sees these issues rarely as well as the experienced surgeon who lacks the resource of volume to do comparative studies, there is a need for guidance in this respect... The purpose of this First International..