One-year experience with Tantalus™: A new surgical approach to treat morbid obesity

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 627-634

  Bohdjalian, Arthur ^a   Prager, Gerhard ^a   Aviv, Ricardo ^b   Policker, Shai ^b   Schindler, Karin ^a   Kretschmer, Silke ^a   Riener, Raphaela ^a   Zacherl, Johannes ^a   Ludvik, Bernhard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MetaCure (USA) Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastric contractility modulation; Gastric pacemaker; Laparoscopy; Morbid obesity; Obesity; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; HUNGER; IMPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE GENERATOR; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH FUNDUS; STOMACH MUSCLE; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNGER; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; OBESITY, MORBID; SATIETY RESPONSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 33646857260     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1381/096089206776945101     Document Type: Article

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