Just driving me nuts. Watched big medicine and they're talking about doing a conversion from the 'melena band' to RNY. It was 10 years ago, and I've never heard of melena band, but he was talking about how it could have eroded etc.. anyway, I have googled all different spellings and can't find a single thing about it.

Anyone know the right spelling or where I can find info on it? I wanted to see how it compares to the lap-band.

I want to know the same thing!!

The Molina band is the one you're looking for. Here's a little about it (not much): ASBS - American Society for Bariatric Surgery

I was wondering about that as well. I didn't particularly like how they did not state that it was an old, inferior model of band.

You all read my mind, I was googling for 15 minutes bfore I just gave up:sneaky:

I read on one of the sites that it's also called a "Dacron band". I think dacron is a material they used for the band.

I don't know but didn't you just want to smack that poor woman's sister???????? She was so over-bearing!!!!! The woman was already a nervous wreck and she wasn't helping at all. I felt really bad for her. The sister has some control issues I'm thinking.

The sister had gastric bypass on a previous episode. But your right she was way overbearing.