Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG), an increasingly popular, minimally invasive weight loss procedure, has been shown to be safe and effective in the first study ever to compare outcomes with laparoscopic surgery.
In a head-to-head-to-head trial comparing ESG with laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) and laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB), the endoscopic approach was associated with the lowest rate of complications of all three procedures and with the shortest