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Another
Successful Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic
Gastric Bypass Surgery at Piyavate Hospital
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Bangkok April 8, 2004
Mr. Dale McClure, a 54 year-old social worker
from Ohio, USA, recently checked in at Piyavate
Hospital’s new Bariatric Center. The next day
the Center’s surgeon performed another
successful gastric bypass surgery in the only
dedicated endosuite in Thailand.
48 hours later Mr. McClure left the hospital,
feeling great, and continued on his vacation in
Thailand with his family.
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December 2004: Dale McClure now weighs 209
lbs. Congratulations, Dale! He is the first LBS
Thailand patient to lose over 100 lbs and that
IN ONLY 9 MONTHS.
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Here is Dale, 9 months after surgery. Dale lost
130 lbs in 9 months.
Click here to track Dale's progress.
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Dr. Michael
Miller, LBS International,
presents a Laparoscope to Dr. Nantarika
Chansue, head of the Aquatic Animal Medicine
Division at Chulalongkorn University.
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LBS
International, Ltd. - Regional Training
Centers
LBS International, Ltd., in conjuction with
their corporate sponsors Tyco Corporation,
Stryker Corporation, Microline, and Computermotion,
has opened it's Regional Training Center in
Advanced Minimally Invasive Surgery at
Piyavate Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand.
LBS would like to congratulate Dr. Somsak
Kornsithison of Piyavate Hospital and Dr.
Howard Kaufman of the University of Southern
California, Department of Surgery, upon
completion of mini-fellowships at LBS in
California.
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LBS PERFORMS
FIRST ROBOTIC ASSISTED GASTRIC BYPASS IN ASIA
(Article in "The Nation" dd.
February 1, 2004; click to
see the article)
On Monday, January 19, 2004 Shedell
Hubbard flew from California, USA to Piyavate
Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand for the first
Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass
ever performed in Asia.
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The surgical
specialists of LBS International at Piyavate
Hospital, using the first dedicated EndoSuite
in Thailand, completed the procedure in only
one hour and twenty minutes.
Shedell was out of bed the same day. On
the third post-operative day she toured
Bangkok and went shopping. On Saturday,
January 24, 2004 she boarded a Thai Airways
flight and returned to California - feeling
great, ready to start her new life.
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