I was just wondering if anyone knows of any new studies done on the lapband that I can get to online? Whenever someone quotes statistics about the band, it is always from the FDA clinical studies that were a fiasco. I know there are other studies done worldwide, but I don't have links to them...

Thanks!

sheryl, in the files section of the DFWbandsters there are many articles.

Go have a look...

The following links require registration but I believe it is free.

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Surgical Treatment of Severe Obesity With a Low-Pressure Adjustable Gastric Band: Experimental Data and Clinical Results in 625 Patients

from Annals of Surgery

Posted 01/28/2003

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/447511

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Adjustable Gastric Band Safe, Effective in Severe Obesity

Laurie Barclay, MD

Jan. 21, 2003

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/448121

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Laparoscopic Gastric Banding: A Minimally Invasive Surgical Treatment for Morbid Obesity

from Annals of Surgery

Posted 01/22/2003

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/447506

Great articles Kiera! Thanks.

Another good source for current information is the The National Library of Medicine; also free. You just put in your search words as with any search engine. These are usually just the abstract of the article though.

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Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding: a prospective comparison of two commonly used bands.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12194555&dopt=Abstract

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Experience with Lap-band System up to 7 years.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12194553&dopt=Abstract

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Laparoscopic Swedish adjustable gastric banding: 6-year follow-up and comparison to other laparoscopic bariatric procedures

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12841903&dopt=Abstract:)