Reem Sharaiha, MD, MSc, discussed her study on the benefits of non-surgical endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty for obese patients at the 2017 Digestive Disease Week in Chicago (abstract 334). Dr. Sharaiha and her fellow researchers, including fellow Aleksey Novikov, MD (@ANovikovMD), found that patients who received endoscopic treatment had lower complications (1%) than those who received surgical treatment (10% of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and 11% for laparoscopic banding.)
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