Stomach reduction

Specialty of Gastroenterology

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The reduction of stomach is an operation that takes place in those suffering morbid obesity. Currently, there are operations that do not require open surgery but may be performed through endoscopy. The reduction of stomach by endoscopy, also known as surgery POSE, is a new technique made ​​orally without the need for incisions. To do this minimally invasive intervention, begins by introducing an endoscope through the mouth up to the stomach, where folds are performed to reduce its size and capacity, as well as for emptying is slower. The advantages of stomach reduction without surgery are offering permanent results without external scars, no hospital admissions and more safely.

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