Bariatric Endoscopy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Thompson, Christopher C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Gastroenterology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.

To date, diet programs and medical therapies for the treatment of obesity have had limited success. Bariatric surgery, however, provides a means of effective weight loss for many of those with morbid obesity. Most of these weight loss procedures are performed with a variety of techniques that contin...