Articles & Interviews

Occasionally Advanced Specialty Care is featured in the media.  We have archived some of those interviews in this section in the hope that our patients may learn more about us as people as well as the procedures that we perform.

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A Fundamental Shift in Bariatric Surgery
Originally published in Cascade Business News - October 3, 2007

We've all heard the statistics - 35 percent of the U.S. population is considered morbidly obese.  Along with the obvious debilitating effects of carrying around more body weight, obesity is often the cause of other health issues such as high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol.

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Gastric bypass gives patient new 'After' life
Bariatric surgery transports a Bend man and his doctor to the top of Kilimanjaro
Originally published in The Oregonian, April 4, 2007

Hours before the surgeon sliced and stapled his stomach into a thumb-size pouch, Tony Randazzo posed for his "Before" picture. He did not smile.

Folds of flesh drooped onto his belly, which bulged over his size 50 slacks. His chin and cheeks spread out around his goatee. With 350 pounds packed onto his 5-foot-7-inch frame, Randazzo threatened to burst the seams of his pants while he was sitting and destroyed couch armrests as he struggled to his feet.

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