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 ...

March 21, 2011 — Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB), an obesity ... Nearly 30% of patients in the study experienced band erosion, nearly half needed to have their band removed ...

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 ...

and 23 instances of band erosion. The latter was discovered after a mean of four years and led to band removal or gastric bypass surgery in 19 cases.

Researchers concluded that the adjustable gastric band surgery ... a regular basis and be vigilant for signs of infection or band erosion.

After surgery. Erosions and ulcers are a rare possible complication of gastric band surgery to treat obesity. The band can slip and travel to your colon, where it causes an erosion. Your doctor ...

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 ...