[Michael]

I am keen on having a drop down list of the different types of WLS for use in each members profile.

What are the main broad types of WLS that I should have.

It will also be useful to be able to say x% have had this etc.

Aitkens Diet
Jenny Craig
and other diet types

Lap Roux En Y Gastric Bypass
Lap Band Surgery
Mini Gastric Bypass
Sleeve Gastroplasty


Thanks

[DocSanae]

I'll see if I can get some data at the workshop I'll be attending today.
The majority is R en Y bypass, either open or lap, but most it lap these days, a few gastric banders and no Mini nor Sleeve.
Actually, from what I have read so far, only about 15 surgeons do the sleeve. Duodenal switch, a kind of bypass and sleeve combined, is also another form, and there are more DS patients than just sleeve patients.

Let me send you a list you can use after I come home.
Right now, I am already 5 minutes late!!!

[DocSanae]

Okay, so I was too pooped last night when I came home to be able to sort out my notes.

In the US, the data is the latest, for 2005, I think, it's still to early to get the 2006 data.

Roux en Y bypass 77%
Lap banding 16%
Sleeve gastrectomy 3%
others (Duodenal switch, Biliopancreatic diversion)

Consider all that can be done either open and lap as combined, the slides went by too fast for me to get everything correctly, I shoulda taken my camera along!!! (Yuck, after thought, they usually provide an abstract for the lectures, but the ones for the foreign speakers were incomplete... )

Here's the link for the types of surgery page of the weight loss center the speaker belongs to.
Weill Cornell Weight Loss Surgery: Healthcare Services

Also the link to the NIH guideline for bariatric surgery. It gives a summary of the major types of surgery, but sleeve is not included in this yet.
WIN - Publication - Gastrointestinal Surgery for Severe Obesity

I have also put up a post explaining the sleeve gastrectomy here.
http://www.renewedreflections.com/fo...html#post28256

Mini gastric bypass is a procedure done only by certain surgeons in Taiwan (Formosa) because they felt the procedure better for the Taiwanese whose pre-op medical issues are somewhat different from the Americans. I understand the differences, but I'm not going to go there here, it's probably going to be too complicated, need to explain too much things. The surgeon who does the mini-gastric bypass was at the workshop yesterday.

I need to sort through the notes I took yesterday, it is messy and I am having fun trying to decipher it, remembering what was said.

[fr1endly2]

other diets pre ops tried:

weight watchers, nutrisystem, southbeach diet...are just a few more that are out there.....!

[Cockney]

Michael. I was not able to find mine......Vertical Gastrectomy

[DocSanae]

Cockney, vertical gastrectomy is otherwise known as sleeve gastrectomy.