For patients with diabetes undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) and sleeve gastrectomy (SG), overall expenditures decrease in the postsurgical period.

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

VSG is promoted as a less invasive alternative to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, the bariatric surgery most frequently performed in the U.S. CTAF recently assessed the evidence for laparoscopic ...

Drug solubility and surface area for absorption are affected by gastric bypass procedures ... major portions of the small intestine, Roux-en-Y bypass procedures drastically reduce the surface ...