Post written by Bashar J. Qumseya, MD, MPH, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. The study focused on the rate of Barrett’s esophagus (BE) in patients who undergo endoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (SG) for weight loss. My dentist informed me that he was seeing cases of very severe GERD …
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Post written by Vivek Kumbhari, MD, and Lea Fayad, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Our study compared 2 weight-loss procedures, the commonly performed laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) and the newly introduced, minimally invasive endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG). The LSG has excellent weight-loss outcomes but, as an elective …
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