Martinsburg, W.Va.-based West Virginia University Berkeley Medical Center has opened a new bariatric surgery clinic, Herald-Mail Media reported Feb. 12.

such as gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy, have been effective but come with risks associated with invasive procedures. In recent years, endoscopic bariatric therapies, particularly Endoscopic ...

In a 10-year period (January 1996–December 2006), 96 patients suffering from super obesity underwent sleeve gastrectomy and ... When the GCF persisted, endoscopic fibrin sealing was applied.

A sleeve gastrectomy, also called gastric sleeve surgery or vertical sleeve gastrectomy, is a weight loss (bariatric) surgery. This a gastric restrictive procedure, which is a type of weight loss ...

Your life will improve in ways you cannot imagine." The sleeve gastrectomy involves removing a large part of the stomach. This is the part that stretches during meals, and also the part that produces ...

For patients with diabetes undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) and sleeve gastrectomy (SG), overall expenditures decrease in the postsurgical period, with no differences seen following the ...

WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center has opened a new bariatric surgery clinic at the Dorothy McCormack Center in Martinsburg ...

The WVU Medicine Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery clinic has opened at the Berkeley Medical Center in Martinsburg, W.Va., The Journal reported Jan. 30.