gastric band
Britishnoun
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The gastric band is rarely performed now due to its high rates of complication and failure.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2023
Even leaving aside the gastric band issue, the idea that the bypass and sleeve surgeries were a mechanical fix, by limiting the amount of food a patient could eat, did not seem right.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2016
Inabnet and his team spent the first forty-five minutes of Roberts’s surgery meticulously removing the adhesions of his old gastric band from his liver, abdominal wall, and small intestine.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 19, 2016
The bigger challenge, though, is making the NHS more productive overall when finances are as tight as a gastric band.
From Economist ● Apr. 28, 2016
A gastric band, or lap band, operation involves placing a silicone tube around the upper part of the stomach to make it smaller and therefore limit the amount of food the stomach can hold.
From BBC ● May 7, 2013
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