Giorgio Bottani

In our Italian Centre we operated 50 patients with gastric vertical plication laparoscopy. The group of patients showed a good control of hunger, reported early satiety during meals and a sense of discomfort at each overeating. The average hospital stay was 36 hours. No intraoperative complications. All patients had a loss of excess weight (EWL)% to 20% after 1 month. In further experiments the average was 62% EWL% (range 45-77%) at 1 year Currently there are four international studies with limited numbers of patients, but on average it was found a% EWL (excess weight loss) of 69.6% at 1 year in 300 patients.