The Orbera Gastric Balloon Procedure

Name: The Orbera Gastric Balloon Procedure
Uploaded: 2024-08-14T16:00:34+00:00
Duration: 31 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains how the Orbera gastric balloon works: a saline-filled balloon placed endoscopically occupies half your stomach to trigger early…

14 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok explains how the Orbera gastric balloon works: a saline-filled balloon placed endoscopically occupies half your stomach to trigger early fullness. It stays six months, then gets removed. Most people lose 20 to 50 pounds, some up to 100.

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Endoscopically with sedation, using a scope down the mouth into the stomach.

Saline.

About six months.

Typically 20–50 pounds, with reports up to 100 pounds.

Endoscopically in the same fashion as placement.

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Or marigastric balloon. This is a balloon that goes in endoscopically, meaning if you get sedated and they put a scope down your mouth into your stomach, and a balloon gets inserted with the scope and inflated with saline. And the balloon is designed to stay in for about six months and make you feel full. So your stomach's got a certain size. And when the balloon takes about half that size, it creates fullness, and the person tends to lose, on average, 20 to 50 pounds of weight is typically lost, but we've seen up to 100 pounds of weight loss. It's designed to go for six months. In that six months, the balloon is taken out in the same fashion with the endoscope.