1. Overweight and Obesity Worldwide now Estimated to Involve 1.7 Billion People

   • Mervyn Deitel

   EditorialNotes 01 June 2003 Pages: 329 - 330

2. Obesity Surgery in India

   • Andrew C Jamieson

   EditorialNotes 01 June 2003 Pages: 330 - 330

3. Prevalence of Co-morbidities in Obese Patients before Bariatric Surgery: Effect of Race

   • Luigi Residori
   • Pilar García-Lorda
   • Blandine Laferrère

   OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 333 - 340

4. Comparing the Outcomes after Laparoscopic versus Open Gastric Bypass: a Matched Paired Analysis

   • Anita Courcoulas
   • Yaron Perry
   • James Luketich

   OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 341 - 346

5. Prevalence of Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis in Morbidly Obese Subjects Undergoing Gastric Bypass

   • Laurie Spaulding
   • Thomas Trainer
   • Dorota Janiec

   OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 347 - 349

6. Internal Hernias after Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: Incidence, Treatment and Prevention

   • Kelvin D Higa
   • Tienchin Ho
   • Keith B Boone

   OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 350 - 354

7. Early Results after Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass: EEA vs GIA Stapled Gastrojejunal Anastomosis

   • Timothy R Shope
   • Robert N Cooney
   • Randy S Haluck

   OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 355 - 359

8. Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass for Morbid Obesity with Linear Gastroenterostomy

   • M Korenkov
   • P Goh
   • H Troidl

   OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 360 - 363

9. Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass: Development of Technique, Respiratory Function, and Long-Term Outcome

   • Torsten Olbers
   • Hans Lönroth
   • Lars Lundell

   OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 364 - 370

10. Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients Seeking Gastric Bypass Surgery vs Non-Treatment-Seeking Controls

    • Ronette L Kolotkin
    • Ross D Crosby
    • Ted Adams

    OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 371 - 377

11. Contraceptive Treatment after Biliopancreatic Diversion Needs Consensus

    • Esther G Gerrits
    • Robrecht Ceulemans
    • Erik Totté

    OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 378 - 382

12. Effect of Weight Loss on Bone Metabolism: Comparison of Vertical Banded Gastroplasty and Medical Intervention

    • Engin Guney
    • Gurcan Kisakol
    • Taylan Kabalak

    OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 383 - 388

13. Low-Back Pain in Morbidly Obese Patients and the Effect of Weight Loss Following Surgery

    • John Melissas
    • Evaggelos Volakakis
    • Alexander Hadjipavlou

    OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 389 - 393

14. Personality Profiles of the Morbidly Obese after Vertical Banded Gastroplasty

    • Juan A Guisado
    • Francisco J Vaz

    OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 394 - 398

15. Laparoscopic Revisional Surgery for Life-Threatening Stenosis Following Vertical Banded Gastroplasty, Together with Placement of an Adjustable Gastric Band

    • Nancy Gavert
    • Amir Szold
    • Subhi Abu-Abeid

    OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 399 - 403

16. Laparoscopic Swedish Adjustable Gastric Banding: a Five-Year Prospective Study

    • Rudolf Steffen
    • Laurent Biertho
    • Fritz F Horber

    OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 404 - 411

17. Laparoscopic Swedish Adjustable Gastric Banding: 6-year Follow-up and Comparison to other Laparoscopic Bariatric Procedures

    • Reinhard P Mittermair
    • Helmut Weiss
    • Franz Aigner

    OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 412 - 417

18. Single-Stage Abdominoplasty and Mastopexy after Weight Loss following Gastric Banding

    • Martin Rhomberg
    • Petra Pülzl
    • Hildegunde Piza-Katzer

    OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 418 - 423

19. Quality of Life following Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding – the Swedish Band and the Moorehead-Ardelt Questionnaire

    • Pekka Tolonen
    • Mikael Victorzon

    OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 424 - 426

20. Outcome after Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding – 8 Years Experience

    • R Weiner
    • R Blanco-Engert
    • I Pomhoff

    OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 427 - 434

21. 11-cm Lap-Band^® System Placement after History of Intragastric Migration

    • M Vertruyen
    • G Paul

    OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 435 - 438

22. Treating Diabetes in the Morbidly Obese by Laparoscopic Gastric Banding

    • Kevin Dolan
    • Richard Bryant
    • George Fielding

    OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 439 - 443

23. Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding with Duodenal Switch for Morbid Obesity: Technique and Preliminary Results

    • Michel Gagner
    • Rudolf Steffen
    • Fritz Horber

    OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 444 - 449

24. Stapled Roux-en-Y Anastomosis: An Illustrated Technique

    • Ara Keshishian
    • Karim Zahriya

    OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 450 - 452

25. Afferent Limb Volvulus and Perforation of the Bypassed Stomach as a Complication of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

    • Paul S Fleser
    • Mario Villalba

    Report 01 June 2003 Pages: 453 - 456

26. Excellent Weight Result after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in Spite of Gastro-Gastric Fistula

    • Sven Gustavsson
    • Magnus Sundbom

    Report 01 June 2003 Pages: 457 - 459

27. A Correlation Method for Weight Loss after Gastroplasty

    • P H Lointier
    • P H Verdier
    • A Verdier

    BriefCommunication 01 June 2003 Pages: 460 - 464

28. Laparoscopic Vertical Banded Gastroplasty with Wedge Resection of Gastric Fundus

    • J Ken Champion
    • John Melissas

    OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 465 - 465

29. Early Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage after Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass

    • Rudolf Steffen
    • Ninh T Nguyen

    OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 466 - 467

30. Sweet Eating is not a Predictor of Outcome after Lap-Band^® Placement?

    • Harvey J Sugerman
    • Eric J DeMaria
    • Steven Hudson

    OriginalPaper 01 June 2003 Pages: 468 - 471

31. Announcements

    • Editorial Office

    Announcement 01 June 2003 Pages: 472 - 480