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Rescue Surgery! Banding the failed Bypass

Rescue Surgery! Banding the failed Bypass

Dr Ortiz's extensive experience with gastric banding led to the novel idea of adding adjustability to failed gastric bypass thus offering finally a valid revision option for the hundreds of thousand of patients with a failed bypass surgery. Dr Ortiz first published this in 2006 and it caught on as the gold standard for bypass surgery revision.

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