Gastric Plication / Laparoscopic Greater Curvature Plication (LGCP)

The LGCP/gastric plication procedure (also sometimes known as GPS - gastric plication surgery) is one of the newest surgical weight loss procedures.  It achieves a similar restriction of gastric content as that of a sleeve gastrectomy, without removing any stomach.  Instead, the stomach is "plicated" or folded in on itself and sutured together. 

So there is still a narrow tube made out of the stomach (using this method) rather than a resection of stomach.  The advantage of this method is that, since there is no staple line, the risk of a leak is greatly reduced, almost to zero. 

The disadvantage of gastric plication (LGCP) are as follows:

1.  This is a brand new operation, so we don't have any long-term data on its success.  The 6 month and 12 month results have been very promising, but this does not guarantee long-term durability.

2.  One advantage of the sleeve is that the part of the stomach that gets removed secretes many hunger-producing hormones, therefore after it is gone those hormones are greatly reduced.  This  leads to major hunger suppression.  While patients do report hunger suppression after gastric plication / LGCP, it is likely not to the same degree as for a sleeve.

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