If, however, a gastric band is removed for any reason (for example gastric band erosion, inadequate weight loss or food intolerance) patients will often regain all of their lost weight ...

Band slippage, gastric pouch outlet stenosis, band or ring mucosal erosion, and intragastric migration are the classical late complications that often lead to abdominal pain, weight loss (or ...

Gastric bands for obesity may help people ... including 28 percent who experienced band erosion. Nearly 50 percent of patients lost their band within nine years. Most who had their band removed ...

The authors point out that the most common complications related to gastric bands are band slippage or erosion, and that lung-related problems such as those described above are rare. However ...

Clare White, 37, who had three children, died a month after her operation The death of a Derby woman after gastric band surgery was caused by a blood clot and a series of complications, a coroner ...

Deputy assistant coroner Paul McCandless said Mrs White had developed an infection because of a "rare but recognised complication of gastric band erosion" which then "weakened adjacent cells and ...