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Figure-of-eight overstitch keeps endoscopic stents in place


 

REPORTING FROM SAGES 2018


“We had better success with gastric bypass [patients], probably due to anatomy,” Dr. Krishnan noted. Sleeves leave patients with higher intraluminal pressures, which complicate leak healing.

Stents didn’t have any impact on weight loss. Patients lost a mean of 57% of their excess body weight over an average of 21 months.

Out of 20 patients with available data, 5 were readmitted for oral intolerance, another major concern with endoscopic stents; 3 had their stents removed because of it. None required total parenteral nutrition.

Among 17 patients with available data, 7 (41.7%) had poststent reflux; all of them reported proton-pump inhibitor histories.

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