U.S., Nov. 18 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07230769) titled 'Bougie Diameter on Outcomes in Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy' on Sept. 21.
Brief Summary: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) has become an increasingly popular bariatric procedure since its first performance by Hess and Hess in 1988 as a component of the biliopancreatic diversion-duodenal switch (BPD-DS) procedure, which was modified from Scopinaro's biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) and DeMeester's technique. In the early part of the twenty-first century, it was popularized as a first-step intervention before BPD or gastric bypass in the super obese and high-risk group of patients by Regan et al. Due to the unexpected good resul...