Sustained Weight Loss with Vagal Nerve Blockade but Not with Sham: 18-Month Results of the ReCharge Trial

Journal of Obesity

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Shikora, Scott A ^a,b   Wolfe, Bruce M ^c   Apovian, Caroline M ^d   Anvari, Mehran ^e   Sarwer, David B ^f   Gibbons, Robert D ^g   Ikramuddin, Sayeed ^h   Miller, Christopher J ⁱ   Knudson, Mark B ^b   Tweden, Katherine S ^b   Sarr, Michael G ^j   Billington, Charles J ^k  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b EnteroMedics Inc   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁱ Planning Communities LLC   (United States)

^j MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BLOATING; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DYSPEPSIA; DYSPHAGIA; ERUCTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GENERALIZED ILEUS; HEADACHE; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; ILEUS; INCISION PAIN; INCREASED APPETITE; INTRAOPERATIVE OOZING; IRRITABLE COLON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NAUSEA; NEUROREGULATOR MALFUNCTION; NEUROREGULATOR SITE PAIN; OBESITY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROTATOR CUFF; SHAM PROCEDURE; STOMACH PERFORATION; THORAX PAIN; VAGAL NERVE BLOCKADE; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND IRRITATION; WOUND REDNESS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ELECTRODE; NERVE BLOCK; OBESITY, MORBID; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VAGUS NERVE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; BODY MASS INDEX; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DYSPEPSIA; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARTBURN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; OBESITY, MORBID; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VAGUS NERVE; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84938231187     PISSN: 20900708     EISSN: 20900716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/365604     Document Type: Article

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