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Life-threatening visceral complications after intragastric balloon insertion: Is the device, the patient or the doctor to blame?

Background and aim  Intragastric balloon placement is established as a safe, relatively low-cost and well-tolerated minimally invasive procedure for weight loss, giving encouraging results under the strict prerequisite that the obese patient will enroll in a medically supervised weight loss program....

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Autores principales: Stavrou, George, Tsaousi, Georgia, Kotzampassi, Katerina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: © Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2019
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6342679/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30705942
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/a-0809-4994