—By Ted Bosworth
San Diego—Five years after endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty, most patients have sustained weight loss, providing evidence that an endoscopic approach might compete for long-term efficacy with sleeve gastrectomy, or other more costly and invasive bariatric surgeries.
In one of the longest and largest follow-ups of endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty so far reported, the overall weight loss persisted at one, two, three, four and five years after the procedure, according to