Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, the past, the present and the future.

The laparoscopic implantation of an adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) was first described in 1993. Thereafter, the LAGB underwent to a lot of modifications, revision and refinements to become as it is currently defined. This procedure quickly became one of the most common bariatric surgical operations in the world in the first decade of the 2000s but, over the last few years, it has turned into the fourth more common procedure.

Technical Details and Result of a Minimally Invasive Management of Gastric Band Erosions: a Series of 47 Patients.

Introduction: Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) is proven to be a safe and effective treatment option for obesity in the long term. However, in recent decades, LAGB prevalence progressively decreased worldwide principally due to the incidence and the management of the complications. Understanding the optimal management of the complications becomes therefore of primary importance.

Teenagers with obesity: Long-term results of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding.

Background: Obesity is a rapidly spreading chronic disease worldwide. Long-term results are critical to assess the effectiveness of a bariatric procedure, particularly in young patients who have long life expectancy.

Methods: A retrospective study on adolescents with morbid obesity who underwent Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding (LAGB) at our institute from 1995 to 2018 was made.

Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding on 3566 patients up to 20-year follow-up: Long-term results of a standardized technique.

Background: As obesity is a chronic disease, any bariatric procedure should be validated by long-term results.

Objective: To present our long-term results after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding over a period of >20 years and to investigate the outcomes in terms of efficacy, complications, and reoperations.

Setting: Private practice, Italy.

Three years durability of the improvements in health-related quality of life observed after gastric banding.

Background: Improvements in health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) occur after bariatric surgery. However, sustainability of these changes over time remains debated.

Methods: Data collected in a prospective 3-year multicenter Italian study on changes of HR-QoL after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding were used.