Bryan J Sandler, Laurent Biertho, Mehran Anvari, Roberto Rumbaut, Luis Alonso Morales-Garza, Gustavo Torres-Barrera, Simon Marceau, Dennis Hong, C Daniel Smith, Santiago Horgan
BACKGROUND: Only a small percentage of candidates for bariatric surgery ever undergo a procedure for weight loss. Devices duplicating key effects of bariatric surgeries with removable, fully trans-oral implants could extend their benefits to patients unwilling to undergo anatomy-altering abdominal surgeries. METHODS: Thirty-two obese subjects (mean BMI: 42.3) were enrolled in a prospective, multicenter, single-arm, feasibility trial of the first fully trans-oral endoscopic gastrointestinal bypass device...
April 20, 2018: Surgical Endoscopy