Gastric Sleeve Surgery – Alexandria Bariatric Surgeon Discusses One of the Most Popular Treatments Available
Dr. James Parrish compares gastric sleeve surgery with adjustable gastric banding and gastric bypass surgery, providing details on how the procedure can help patients lose weight and start living healthier lifestyles.
Alexandria, LA – Dr. James Parrish, a bariatric surgeon for the Alexandria and the Natchitoches, Louisiana areas, says laparoscopic gastric sleeve surgery is performed on approximately 85 percent of patients at his practice.. That makes the procedure, also known as vertical ...
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How Can Gastric Bypass Surgery Affect Diabetes?
Millions of people suffer from type-2 diabetes, the most common form of the condition. Unfortunately, type-2 diabetes is also one of the most common comorbid conditions associated with severe obesity. The good news is: weight loss surgery can significantly reduce obesity-related health conditions such as type-2 diabetes, gastroesophageal reflux disease, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, and others. When it comes to type-2 diabetes, one bariatric surgery option in particular has shown to ...
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Gastric Sleeve Surgery Success Stories
If you’ve been tuning in to our blog over the last few weeks, you’ve seen articles talking about some of the similarities and differences between gastric sleeve surgery and gastric bypass, as well as comparisons between gastric sleeve surgery and LAP-BAND® Adjustable Gastric Banding. All of these treatments offer patients suffering from morbid obesity a vital tool to lose significant amounts of weight, reduce obesity-related health conditions, and start a new and ...
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Is Gastric Sleeve or LAP-BAND® Adjustable Gastric Banding Better for My Needs?
In our last blog entry, we talked about some of the differences and advantages between laparoscopic gastric sleeve surgery and gastric bypass, two of the most popular treatments here at Mid Louisiana Surgical Specialists. Today, we’ll compare gastric sleeve surgery with LAP-BAND® Adjustable Gastric Banding.
The LAP-BAND® System is a technique which involves the placement of an adjustable band around the top of the stomach to create a smaller stomach chamber, which ...
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Gastric Bypass vs Gastric Sleeve: Which is Right for Me?
Gastric bypass and gastric sleeve surgery (also known as vertical sleeve gastrectomy) are two of the most popular and effective bariatric surgery procedures available at our practice. They are two very different procedures, but they both serve essentially the same function: to help you attain an earlier feeling of fullness at mealtimes, lose significant amounts of weight, reduce risks of obesity-related health conditions, and start living a healthier lifestyle. With that in ...
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Alexandria Weight Loss Surgeon Discusses Results of New Gastric Sleeve Surgery Study
Bariatric surgeon James Parrish, MD talks about a new scientific study that favorably compares the safety and efficacy of gastric sleeve surgery to other weight loss procedures.
Alexandria, LA -- According to an article in the monthly newspaper General Surgery News, a recent study by Carlin et al in Annals of Surgery (2013;257:791-797; editorial 798-799) showed that laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, also known as gastric sleeve surgery, favorably compared tolaparoscopic adjustable gastric banding ...
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Study Reveals Gastric Sleeve Surgery Can Be a Very Good Option to Fight Morbid Obesity
A recent General Surgery News article revealed laparoscopic gastric sleeve surgery, also known as vertical sleeve gastrectomy, produced better weight loss results when compared to laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding procedures and lower rates of complication when compared to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB). The extensive study was conducted over a three-year span with 2,949 gastric sleeve patients. The researchers compared them to other patients who had undergone gastric banding and RYGB surgery.
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Benefits of Gastric Sleeve Surgery
Gastric sleeve surgery is one of the most popular weight loss procedures performed by our bariatric surgeon, Dr. James Parrish, and the Mid Louisiana Surgical Specialists team. Also known as laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, gastric sleeve surgery removes a significant portion of the stomach and reshapes the remainder, limiting the amount of food the stomach can hold. In addition to restricting how much food you can eat before feeling full, the hormones that ...
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Alexandria Bariatric Surgeon Hosts First Walk From Obesity in Central Louisiana
Dr. James Parrish, a weight loss surgeon in Alexandria, recently hosted Central Louisiana’s first annual Walk From Obesity event in an effort to raise awareness and encourage healthy lifestyles.
Alexandria, LA -- On May 3, 2013, Central Louisiana took part in its very first Walk From Obesity event. Hosted by Alexandria bariatric surgeon James Parrish, MD and his team at Mid Louisiana Surgical Specialists, the event offered individuals the opportunity to participate ...
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Always Hungry? Here’s Why
Could it be that it’s not overeating that causes us to get fat, but the process of getting fatter that causes us to overeat? In an interesting New York Times article titled "Always Hungry? Here's Why" this theory is discussed.
It is explained that because so many calories are being locked away in fat tissue there are fewer calories circulating in the bloodstream and satisfying the bodies requirements. This means that while ...
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