To view the live webcast on June 21 at 4:00 p.m. EDT of a Laparoscopic Banded Gastric Bypass from Florida Hospital Celebration Health click here to sign up now. You will receive an email reminder a few days before the program.

This procedure is a combination of the Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and the once common Vertical Banded Gastroplasty. In this operation, the implantation of a plastic band around the stomach pouch (resulting in significant restriction of food intake) in addition to the changes of absorption seen from the gastric bypass, may have been associated with 20% more excess weight loss than one would expect from gastric bypass alone. Therefore, expected weight loss is 60-90% of a patient's excess weight.

During the live webcast, you will be able to send email questions or comments directly to bariatric surgeon Dr. Robert Marema in the OR.

Karl Storz Endoscopy is making this interactive Internet webcast available as part of their ongoing efforts to provide education and training in minimally invasive bariatric surgery.