NIH R01 · 2024
Development and Validation of a Virtual Bariatric Endoscopic (ViBE) simulator
Development and Validation of a Virtual Bariatric Endoscopic (ViBE) Simulator Abstract Obesity is a chronic, relapsing, multifactorial, and neurobehavioral disease that requires life-long, multidisciplinary management beyond a single intervention. The current treatment options for patients with morbid obesity include pharmacotherapy, which only induces suboptimal weight loss, and bariatric surgery, utilized only by a small fraction of the eligible patients. Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty (ESG) is rapidly emerging as a new tool to combat the obesity epidemic used both as (i) primary weight loss procedure and (ii) endoscopic revision for patients experiencing weight gain following surgery. It…
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