Many lap-band patients are seeking further bariatric remedy world-wide. Excluding patients with eroded bands, vast majority of those patients will be benefitted from the newly becoming "gold standard" of bariatrics ; sleeve gastrectomy. Concomitant band extraction with sleeve gastrectomy is not a very difficult operation provided that several principles are adhered. Keeping the band "in" & using it for retraction & orientation is one of them. These details are addressed in this un-cut ,fast forward video. |