Intragastric balloon treatment for obesity: What does it really offer?

Digestive Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-44

  Mathus Vliegen, Elisabeth M H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gastric bubble; Intragastric balloon; Morbid obesity; Obesity treatment; Severe obesity; Treatment resistant obesity

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADULT; BALLOON; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; DEVICE REMOVAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; FOLLOW UP; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBID OBESITY; OBESITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATIENT SAFETY; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; STOMACH EROSION; STOMACH PERFORATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

GASTRIC BALLOON; HUMANS; OBESITY; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 37349085906     PISSN: 02572753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000109385     Document Type: Review

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