SUMMERVILLE, S.C.–Summerville’s Jarinthia Ellis recently became the area’s first patient to undergo a gastric sleeve procedure using the da Vinci robot. The gastric sleeve, or sleeve gastrectomy, is a weight loss surgery that involves removal of a portion of the stomach, leaving only a thin vertical sleeve. Surgeon Michael Michel, MD, from Coastal Carolina Bariatric and Surgical Center at Summerville […]