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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....
Autores principales: | Stavrou, George, Tsaousi, Georgia, Kotzampassi, Katerina |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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© Georg Thieme Verlag KG
2019
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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 |
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