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FDA Approved Of Lower BMI Lap Band Surgery
by
Timothy
The lap band system is recommended to patients who have a Body Mass Index of over 40 and associated conditions. But some doctors wanted to see if medium obese patients can benefit in a safe manner from this surgery and made a study. The study s results and the votes made the FDA approve the lap band surgery for low BMI patients too.
The study was done on 149 moderately obese patients and Dr. Timothy Ehrlich has performed surgery on a fifth of them. Dr. Ehrlich is a very experienced weight loss surgeon, as he performed more surgeries than any other bariatric surgeon in the State of Connecticut. He established the program at St. Vincent s Medical Center Bariatric Surgery in Bridgeport in 2005 and he is now the director of bariatric surgery at
Griffin Hospital
.
The patients Dr. Ehrlich performed lap band surgery on were 30 in number and had a BMI between 30 and 40 and health conditions related to their obesity like high cholesterol, knee pains, depression and metabolic syndrome. One important requirement was, like for any other weight loss surgery, to have tried to lose weight through natural means and failed, so this would be the last resort. These persons would not otherwise meet the requirements of FDA .
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Gastroenterology and Urology Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee decided with 8-2 votes that taking into consideration the results of the previous mentioned study, the lap band surgery can be safely performed on patients with a BMI of 30.
Lisa Molholt
, a participant in the trial, would not have otherwise had to opportunity to have a lap band surgery under the current circumstances. She describes her experience as being very positive, as she could avoid the knee surgery and she regained her mobility and health
Dr. Ehrlich reported that the majority of patients have similar results if they respect all the guidelines and they maintain a healthy lifestyle and diet, doing regular exercise. If the results are not positive, then it is usually because emotional eating or behavioral issues appeared.
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