The study aims to investigate the long term results of a randomized clinical single-centre trial comparing two standard operative techniques in bariatric surgery; laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding and vertical banded gastroplasty.
One hundred morbidly obese patients were included in the study. Randomization between the two operative techniques was performed using a computer model. Fifty patients were included in both groups. Weight loss, obesity-related comorbidity, long term complications, re-operations and conversions were all prospectively investigated for a mean period of 84 months.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
100
Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding
vertical banded gastroplasty
Maastricht University Medical Centre
Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
weight loss
Time frame: 84 months
co-morbidity
Time frame: 84 months
complications
Time frame: 84 months
reoperations / revisions / conversions
Time frame: 84 months
Quality of life
Time frame: 84 months
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