How Bad Is "Bad"? A Cost Consideration and Review of Laparoscopic Gastric Plication Versus Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Published in: Obesity surgery (2020)

LGP has higher rates of complications and reoperation, and less %EWL compared with LSG. Despite modest initial cost benefit of LGP, when considering costs associated with the complications and reoperations, we conclude that LSG is superior to LGP in outcome and cost-effectiveness.

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risk factors
minimally invasive