Swallowable, self-inflating capsule may help people lose weight

A capsule called EndoPil — a swallowable pill that expands into a balloon in the stomach — could help people lose weight without requiring a surgical procedure.

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High acquisition rate and internal validity in the Scandinavian Obesity Surgery Registry (SOReg) October 21, 2020

The Scandinavian Obesity Surgery Registry (SOReg) is a national quality register that has collected data on bariatric surgery in Sweden since 2007.

Magnus Sundbom, Ingmar Näslund, Erik Näslund, Johan Ottosson

Outcomes in racial minorities after robotic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy: A retrospective review of the MBSAQIP database October 21, 2020

Robotic-assisted metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) is increasing performed. While there remains discord about racial disparity in primary MBS, there is no data on robotic MBS outcomes in racial cohorts.

Edwin Acevedo, Xiaoning Lu, Huaqing Zhao, Michael Mazzei, Shravan Sarvepalli, Michael A. Edwards

Comment on: Aortic injuries following stents in bariatric surgery: Our experience October 21, 2020

I read with great interest the manuscript entitled:” Aortic injuries following stents in bariatric surgery: Our experience”1.

Emanuele Lo Menzo

Comment on: Long-term BAROS scores and independent obesity-related comorbidity predictors of failure following laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass October 19, 2020

Clinically severe obesity is a debilitating disease that takes hundreds of thousands of lives each year, thus demands consistently safe and successful interventions with sustainable life-long outcomes. The ultimate test for any weight-loss intervention is its durability, across a range of clinically severe body mass indices (BMI), co-morbidity profiles and time. This issue is of […]

Suviraj John, Usha Dudeja, Vivek Bindal

Comment on: Single and dual anastomosis duodenal switch for obesity treatment: a single centre experience October 19, 2020

The quest for the ideal or perfect bariatric procedure continues. Perhaps, it is an unachievable goal. Whereas the objective of the vast majority of surgical procedures is to remove disease or reconstruct a damaged area, bariatric and metabolic surgery does the opposite. It alters normal tissue to create a controlled abnormality. The stomach is reduced […]

Mitchell S. Roslin

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