Obesity is a chronic,progressive,and relapsing disease of excess adiposity that contributes to more than two hundred medical conditions and is projected to affect more than half the adult population of the United Stat...
Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty(ESG)is a minimally invasive procedure used in the treatment of obesity,with a complication rate of less than 2%of cases.There have been only two reported cases worldwide of gallbladder i...
BACKGROUND Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty(ESG) is an effective therapy for class Ⅰ-Ⅱ obesity, but there are knowledge gaps in the published literature about its implementation in patients with class Ⅲ obesity [body...
BACKGROUND The healthcare impact of obesity is enormous,and there have been calls for new approaches to containing the epidemic worldwide.Minimally invasive procedures have become more popular,with one of the most wid...
The most effective and durable treatment for obesity is bariatric surgery.However,less than 2% of eligible patients who fulfill the criteria for bariatric surgery undergo the procedure. As a result,there is a drive to...
Endoscopic suturing had previously been considered an experimental procedure only performed in a few centers and often by surgeons. Now, however, endoscopic suturing has evolved sufficiently to be easily implemented d...