SynthesisSurgical endoscopy2010
Band slippage and erosion after laparoscopic gastric banding: a meta-analysis.
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- Gastric banding adjustment catheter dislodgement and perforation into the colon: case report.AME case reports · 2025Article
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- The SAGES MASTERS program bariatric surgery pathway selects 10 seminal publications on adjustable gastric banding.Surgical endoscopy · 2024Review
- Common, Less Common, and Unexpected Complications after Bariatric Surgery: A Pictorial Essay.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy, long and short-term impact on weight loss and associated co-morbidities.Annals of translational medicine · 2020Review
- Technical Details and Result of a Minimally Invasive Management of Gastric Band Erosions: a Series of 47 Patients.Obesity surgery · 2019Article
- Current treatments for obesity.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2019Review
- Imaging following bariatric surgery: roux-en-Y gastric bypass, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding and sleeve gastrectomy.The British journal of radiology · 2018Review
- Long-Term (over 10 Years) Retrospective Follow-up of Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding.Obesity surgery · 2018Article
- Endoscopic extraction of adjustable gastric bands after intragastric migration as a complication of bariatric surgery: technique and advice.Endoscopy international open · 2016Article
- The role of endoscopy in the bariatric surgery patient.Surgical endoscopy · 2015Article
- Rebanding for slippage after gastric banding: should we do it?Obesity surgery · 2014Article
- Simultaneous Gastric and Duodenal Erosions due to Adjustable Gastric Banding for Morbid Obesity.Case reports in surgery · 2014Article
- Liver abscess as a complication of laparoscopic gastric banding bariatric surgery.Surgical infections · 2013Article
- A study examining the complications associated with gastric banding.Obesity surgery · 2013Article
- Effectiveness of the Transoral Endoscopic Vertical Gastroplasty (TOGa®): a good balance between weight loss and complications, if compared with gastric bypass and biliopancreatic diversion.Obesity surgery · 2012Article
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Abstract
backgroundLaparoscopic adjustable gastric banding has the lowest morbidity and mortality rates among the common bariatric procedures. Troublesome complications associated with this procedure include band slippage and erosion, often requiring revisionary surgery. Rates of slippage have decreased, and this appears to be due to changes in surgical technique. In the authors' experience, units with a low slippage rate also have a low erosion rate and vice versa. Thus a systematic review was undertaken to investigate this relationship.
methodsElectronic databases were searched up to 31 December 2008. Publications focusing solely on laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding with at least 500 patients and a minimum follow-up period of 2 years were included in the study. Publications in languages other than English and those that failed to mention erosion and slippage rates were excluded. Multivariate meta-analyses were conducted separately for the pars flaccida group, the perigastric group, and the combined overall group to pool the average rates of both erosion and slippage for each paper included. The correlation between the occurrence rates for both erosion and slippage then was examined.
resultsThe inclusion criteria were met by 19 studies. The mean rates of erosion and slippage were 1.03 and 4.93, respectively. The results demonstrated a statistically significant overall correlation between erosion and slippage rates (r = 0.48, p = 0.032). A very strong correlation between erosion and slippage was found if the perigastric technique of insertion was used (r = 0.99, p < 0.001). However, this correlation was not statistically significant where the pars flaccida technique of insertion was used (r = 0.34, p = 0.38).
conclusionsThe high correlation rate between erosion and slippage for the perigastric group strongly suggests that these complications share a common pathophysiology. This correlation is reduced with the pars flaccida technique, suggesting that perhaps a different etiology is associated with erosion in these studies. Surgical techniques that help to eliminate lap band slippage should also reduce rates of erosion.
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