Post written by Vitor Brunaldi, MD, MSc, PhD, from Hospital de Amor, Barretos Cancer Center, Barretos, Ribeirao Preto Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, and the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. We aimed to generate head-to-head comparisons among different endoscopic bariatric therapies (EBTs) available in the United …
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Endoscopic tips for intragastric balloon use for obesity: what you need to know
Post written by Carlos Paolo Francisco, MD, FPCP, FPSG, FPSDE, from Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, and St. Luke's Medical Center–Global City, Manila, Philippines. The intragastric balloon (IGB) offers a less-invasive alternative for managing obesity and its associated comorbidities, whether as a primary intervention or a bridge to bariatric surgery. Despite IGB's potential to address the …
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Intragastric balloons
Sun-Chuan Dai, MD, from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA presents this VideoGIE "Intragastric balloons: an introduction and removal technique for the endoscopist." This is a video presentation of a 40-year-old female who had requested removal of an intragastric weight-loss balloon that had been placed 2 months to her presentation. …
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