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Intragastric Balloon Therapy

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Intragastric balloon is a temporary therapy for the management of obesity that involves placing a balloon device either endoscopically or by radiological-guided swallowing process. This chapter includes a review of the FDA-approved devices with technical aspects of placement and removal, patient management, common adverse events, and published outcomes.

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  1. Bariatric Surgery, Metabolic and Bariatric Care, CHI Memorial Hospital, Chattanooga, TN, USA

    Jaime Ponce

  2. Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Rami E. Lutfi

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Surgery, Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA, USA

    Ninh T. Nguyen

  2. Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Stacy A. Brethauer

  3. Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery Division, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    John M. Morton

  4. Bariatric Surgery, Metabolic and Bariatric Care, CHI Memorial Hospital, Chattanooga, TN, USA

    Jaime Ponce

  5. Department of General Surgery, The Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA

    Raul J. Rosenthal

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Ponce, J., Lutfi, R.E. (2020). Intragastric Balloon Therapy. In: Nguyen, N., Brethauer, S., Morton, J., Ponce, J., Rosenthal, R. (eds) The ASMBS Textbook of Bariatric Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27021-6_34

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