Plicated Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding Study

Status unconfirmed · Phase 1

Conditions studied: Weight Loss

In brief

Compare plicated laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding to standard laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding in prospective clinical trial.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01944111

Run by

Tenet Healthcare Corporation

People needed

100

Starts

2013-09-01

Expected to finish

2014-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-09-17

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age older than 18 years
• Morbidly Obese
• BMI >40 or
• BMI >35 plus co-morbid obesity related disease conditions
• Without contraindications to bariatric surgery: eg pregnancy, desire to become pregnant within the next 12 months, myocardial infarct within the last 6 months, cancer within last 5 years, end stage renal/liver disease
• Without any metabolic or medically correctable causes for obesity: eg untreated hypothyroidism, Prader-Willi

You may not qualify if…

• Any patient not meeting the inclusion criteria
• Patients with any major medical problems contraindicating surgery
• Patients with a medically treatable cause of obesity
• Patients who elect to undergo a surgery other than Plication adjustable gastric banding or standard adjustable gastric banding
• Alcohol or drug addiction
• Established infection anywhere in the body at the time of surgery
• Previous history of bariatric surgery, intestinal obstruction, or adhesive peritonitis
• Family or patient history of autoimmune disease

Where it is running

• Des Peres Hospital — St Louis, Missouri, United States

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