Intragastric balloons for obesity : critical review of device design, efficacy, tolerability, and unmet clinical needs

INTRODUCTION: Sustaining a healthy weight is a challenge and obesity, with associated risk of co-morbidities, is a major public health concern. Bariatric surgery has shown a great promise for many where pharmacological and lifestyle interventions failed to work. However, challenges and limitations associated with bariatric surgery has pushed the demand for less invasive, reversible (anatomically) interventions, such as intragastric balloons (IGBs).

AREAS COVERED: This review critically appraises IGBs used in the past, present, and those in clinical trials, discussing the device designs, limitations, placement and removal techniques, patient eligibility, efficacy, and safety issues.

EXPERT OPINION: Several intragastric balloons were developed over the years that brought excitement to patients and healthcare professionals alike. Albeit good efficacy, there had been several safety issues reported with IGBs such as spontaneous deflation, intestinal occlusion, gut perforation, and mucosal ulcerations. This led to evolution of IGBs design; device material, filling mechanism, fluid type, inflation volume, and further innovations to ease ingestion and removal of device. There are some IGB devices under development aimed to swallow like a conventional pill and excrete naturally through defecation, however, how successful they will be in clinical practice in terms of their efficacy and tolerability remains to be seen in the future.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:21

Enthalten in:

Expert review of medical devices - 21(2024), 1-2 vom: 05. Jan., Seite 37-54

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ameen, Sara [VerfasserIn]
Merchant, Hamid A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Bariatric surgery
Bridge-to-surgery
Gastroretention
Journal Article
Metabolic surgery
Multidisciplinary team
Obesity
Review
Sustainable weight-loss

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 06.02.2024

Date Revised 06.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/17434440.2023.2289691

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM365221325