Patient Articles
Profile of Barbara Martucci - New Jersey Harold
Four years ago Barbara Martucci could not bend over to tie her shoes or squeeze through a turnstile at the train station. The 47-year-old Denville woman's life has dramatically changed since she had weight-loss surgery at Dover General Hospital in 2002... (read more)
Slimming Through Surgery - Daily Record
Laparoscopic surgeons worked in the darkened operating room at Morristown Memorial Hospital to change Holly Kapral's anatomy. Doctors Alexander Abkin and Nicholas Bertha inserted their instruments through five half-inch holes in the 18-year-old's stomach, wending their way around her intestines and liver, bypassing layers of fat as they went... (read more)
Lightness of Being - Daily Record
Susan Davenport couldn't stop grinning at her eight-month checkup. The 46-year-old nurse had lost 69 pounds since she'd had an adjustable gastric band laparoscopically placed around the outside of her upper stomach last July. The band created a 2-ounce pouch... (read more)
Losing and Loving It!- Daily Record
For the first time in her life, Holly Kapral cried with happiness when she went on the scale at her doctor's office. It had been three months since her gastric bypass surgery in July, and the 18-year-old college freshman discovered she’d lost 79 pounds. She opened her arms to embrace her mother, Debbie Kapral, who'd had the same surgery in early 2001... (read more)
When Danger Lies in Weight
It wasn’t a look in the mirror that brought Tricia DiPinto to the decision point. It was looking at her 5-year-old son, Joseph. “I knew he was going to need me,” she says, “and the way I was going, I wasn’t likely to be around long... (read more)
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