title: Novel technologies and techniques in bariatric surgery.
abstract: Obesity has been on the rise globally and more people are now clinically obese than ever before in the US. This issue has a significant impact on both health and cost to healthcare systems. Bariatric surgery is efficacious in treatment of obesity but only in late stages of the disease, and there is a requirement for less invasive techniques/devices to treat obesity at earlier stages. Currently a number of these are either in clinical trials or have recently been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for weight loss. This review aims to give an overview of the newer technologies and techniques being used in bariatric surgery. It will also give a glimpse into future methods and those that have fallen short in recent times.
authors.affiliation: King's College London, GKT School of Medical Education, London, UK.
authors.forename: Rafid
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rahman
authors.affiliation: Section of Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA - dazagury@stanford.edu.
authors.forename: Dan E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Azagury
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001340:Autonomic Nerve Block / Q000295:instrumentation; D050110:Bariatric Surgery / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D046690:Deep Brain Stimulation; D004567:Electrodes, Implanted; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000379:methods; D004867:Equipment Design; D015905:Gastric Balloon / Q000009:adverse effects; D005746:Gastric Emptying; D005774:Gastrostomy / Q000295:instrumentation; D006801:Humans; D062069:Inventions; D008280:Magnetics; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D015337:Multicenter Studies as Topic; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D013270:Stomach / Q000098:blood supply / Q000601:surgery; D013552:Swine; D035703:Therapies, Investigational; D014630:Vagus Nerve / Q000502:physiology