Abstract

Bariatric surgery was determined to be safe and effective by the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee, but additional data was requested on older patients. There are few published results of gastric bypass procedures on the elderly Medicare population. To add to the existing literature we looked at our results of laparoscopic gastric bypass (LGB) in patients averaging greater than 70 years of age.

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