By Ted Bosworth
From a removable tube for gastric emptying to a device that tricks the body into thinking it has received adequate calories, clinicians who manage obesity are on the cusp of having an unprecedented arsenal of endoscopic tools at their disposal. Several studies presented at the 2016 Digestive Disease Week underscore the potential of these techniques, which are less invasive than bariatric surgery and more readily reversible.
Recently approved by the FDA, the AspireAssist (Aspire