News & Events: Bariatric Surgery Research

Sandhya Kumar, M.D., MIS/Bariatric Surgery clinical fellow at UCSF, presented her "Top 10" paper, Is laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy safer than laparoscopic gastric bypass? A comparison of complications and mortality using the MBSAQIP data registry, at the 34th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) during "Obesity Week". Kumar was the lead-off presenter in the ASMBS abstracts 2017 paper sessions on October 31st. Dr. Kumar's paper headlined a strong overall showing by UCSF Bariatric Surgery during "Obesity Week", evidencing the program's strong [...]

The December 2013 issue of San Francisco Medicine, the Journal of the San Francisco Medical Society, reportes on the pioneering work of Matthew Y.C. Lin, M.D. and Stanley J. Rogers, M.D., who are among those pioneering an incisionless endoscopic procedure called endoluminal suturing for patients who either have either: 1) gained weight 2) or failed to lose sufficient weight following bariatric surgery. This describes a phenomenon know as WR/IWL that occurs in 1 in 5 or 20% of bariatric surgery patients. It has been observed that the initial gastric bypass anatomy may enlarge or [...]

ABC News reports on the improved chance of having successful organ transplants in patients undergoing bariatric surgery: Gone may be the days of limiting bariatric surgery just to helping patients lose weight. Indeed, these weight loss surgeries, in all forms, do just as the name describes. But a slew of new research suggests bariatric surgery can also be used to help reverse medical complications of obesity, not just eliminate obesity itself. These procedures may reduce the risk of chronic disease, and even help patients better qualify for organ transplants, according to studies presented [...]

UCSF News reports on the "TOGA" study led by Stanley Rogers, MD, FACS, Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery and Co-Director of the UCSF Bariatric Surgery Center, and John Cello, MD, Professor of Medicine and Surgery, and Medical Director of Bariatric Surgery Center.  The investigational procedure, transoral gastroplasty, or "TOGA" for short, is being tested in a clinical trial. UCSF is one of nine U.S. trial sites. Drs. Rogers and Cello are principal investigators on the study. A team of specialists at UCSF Medical Center has treated its first patients as part of a multi-center clinical [...]