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SUBMITTER: Galvao Neto MDP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6658061 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Galvão Neto Manoel Dos Passos MDP Silva Marco M Grecco Eduardo E de Souza Thiago Ferreira TF Baldim Luana Leite LL Teixeira André A Gomes Sara S Macedo Guilherme G de Quadros Luiz Gustavo LG
ACG case reports journal 20190514 5
Endoluminal treatments such as endoscopic gastroplasty have been gaining ground in obesity treatment. A 52-year-old woman gained weight 5 months after endoscopic gastroplasty. Thus, it was decided to resuture the greater curvature of the stomach 8 months after the initial procedure by reducing the gastric pouch even further. The patient lost 16% of her total body weight with this procedure. Endoscopic gastroplasty, which can be reperformed in patients who regain weight, reach a plateau, or do no ...[more]