Sleeve Gastrectomy Versus Gastric Bypass for Private Pay Patients Seeking Obesity Surgery

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Conditions studied: Morbid Obesity

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is a safer surgery than the gastric bypass, gives similar weight losses and that the safety of gastric in private pay patients versus insurance patients will be similar. This is a retrospective chart review of intervention charts.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01063959

Run by

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

People needed

0

Starts

2010-02-01

Expected to finish

2013-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-12-18

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• The last 800 consecutive patients in the surgical practice of Drake Bellanger and Andrew Hargroder who had a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.
• The last 800 consecutive patients in the surgical practice of Drake Bellanger and Andrew Hargroder who had a laparoscopic gastric bypass.

You may not qualify if…

• Subjects having any other obesity surgical procedure

Where it is running

• Pennington Biomedical Research Center — Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

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