ESPE Abstracts

Background: Dietary and lifestyle modifications commonly proposed to overweight or obese youth lack efficacy in those with severe obesity. Early results with bariatric procedures in obese adolescents suggest that weight loss and safety are comparable or better than those seen in adults. One of these procedures, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, is commonly performed using multiple ports. We selected single port sleeve gastrectomy (SPSG) as a minimally invasive surgery to be tes...