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Proper use could lead to weight loss and reduction in gastric reflux.

That could be the difference between needing a gastric tube or not or needing a wheelchair or not.

But after surgery to put a gastric band in place, he reportedly shed almost 90 pounds, and today he looks in relatively good form.

In July, Governor Christie told ABC News that he would never consider gastric bypass because it was “too risky.”

Where gastric bypass surgery requires carving up the abdomen, lap band is done via a small incision through the belly button.

(b) Diseases of the stomach associated with deficient hydrochloric acid, as chronic gastritis and gastric cancer.

Except in gastric ulcer, the danger lies in the retching produced, and the tube can safely be used if the patient takes it easily.

It is secreted by the gastric glands, and is transformed into pepsin by the action of a free acid.

The presence of lactic acid is the most suggestive single symptom of gastric cancer.

Considerable numbers of pus-corpuscles have been found in some cases of gastric cancer.