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Originally Posted by ECHOES
I would ask for the 5-year success rate, if I was considering this huge surgery.
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There was a significant increase in failures and decrease in excellent results at 10 years when compared with 5 years. The failure rate when all patients are followed for at least 10 years was 20.4% for morbidly obese patients and 34.9% for super obese patients.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1856611/
That's just "failure" rates, not the percentage decrease in "excellent" results.
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The Roux-en-Y laparoscopic gastric bypass, first performed in 1993. . .
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(from wikipedia) For me, 20 years is not a long enough history to know how "safe" such an operation is and whether the significant trade offs might be worth it.