AUGUST 15, 2019

Weight Loss Durable After Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty

San Diego—Five years after endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty, most patients have sustained weight loss, providing evidence that an endoscopic approach might compete for long-term efficacy with sleeve gastrectomy, or other more costly and invasive bariatric surgeries.

In one of the longest and largest follow-ups of endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty so far reported, the overall weight loss persisted at one, two, three, four and five years after the procedure, according to Reem Sharaiha, MD, an