Sleeve gastrectomy, the most feasible surgical weight loss procedure for morbidly obese patients in pakistan: early results

ABSTRACT

Background: The laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is a new tool in the surgical treatment of the morbidly obese patients which is now increasingly used as a primary surgical procedure for the morbid obesity as it has comparable weight loss to laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding and better safety profile than the Gastric Bypass with no malabsorption. We describe initial results of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy for morbid obesity in two academic centers of Pakistan