A NEWLY DEVELOPED INTRAGASTRIC BALLOON FOR WEIGHT LOSS: A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF IMPROVED EMPLOYMENT

Aims:

Endoscopic bariatric approaches are gaining traction as possible treatment modalities for obesity. Especially, intragastric balloon was demonstrated to be associated with a significant weight loss in obese patients. Despite many advances in the design and material of intragastric balloon devices, there still remains a need for improved devices which is safer, faster, and less expensive than before. In the present study, we evaluated feasibility of newly developed intragastric balloon.

Methods:

We used a newly developed intragstric balloon with improved employment for this study. The intragastric balloon was supplied as delicately rolled up inside a thin silicon sheath and mounted by surrounding the endoscope. Endoscopic intragastric balloon placement and positioning was simply performed with direct vision. 10 pigs were submitted to the novel intragastric balloon placement. We evaluated feasibility of the intragastric balloon and compared procedure time between the novel intragatric balloon and End-ball (Endalis, Brignais, France) intragastric balloon.

Results:

In all cases, the novel intragastric balloons were successfully placed under usual sedation of diagnostic endoscopy. The procedures were simple and fast; the mean insertion time was 41.314.3 and 153.8 134.8 s in novel intragastric balloon group and end ball group, respectively. The mean inflation time was 412 46 and 512 83 s in novel intragastric balloon group and end ball group, respectively.

Conclusions:

This preliminary data suggest that the procedure with the new intragastric balloon attain technical improvements in the placement without severe adverse events. The new intragastric balloon could offer constantly effective procedure regardless of the ability of the endoscope practitioner