Post written by Aayed Alqahtani, MD, FRCSC, FACS, from the Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. For many patients with obesity, bariatric surgery is not a suitable option. Some patients are not eligible for weight-loss surgery under current conventional criteria. Additionally, many patients who are eligible for bariatric surgery …
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Post written by Vivek Kumbhari, MD, from the Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) is an emerging weight loss technique. However, it is highly operator dependent and there is some variability in technique. In ESG, the volume of the stomach …
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Post written by Vivek Kumbhari, MD, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Weight regain after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is common and is partially attributable to dilatation of the gastrojejunostomy (GJ), which diminishes the restrictive capacity of RYGB. Endoscopic revision of dilated GJ, called transoral outlet reduction (TORe), has been proved effective in …
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