GERD Worsens with Sleeve Gastrectomy

A new article in GI & Hepatology News reports that laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) not only fails to improve gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in most patients who undergo the weight-loss procedure, it actually worsens GERD symptoms in many of them and induces GERD in 9 percent. In …

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