Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty Procedure
Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty, also known as
the accordian procedure, is a weight loss procedure that uses an
endoscopic suturing device to reduce the size of your stomach. The procedure
recreates what would occur at a surgical
sleeve gastrectomy though without the
need for surgery.
Endoscopic sleeve
gastroplasty (ESG) is performed in the hospital under general
anesthesia. Before your procedure, you will need to follow specific preparation
instructions, which you will discuss with your doctor in advance.
During ESG:
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The procedure is done using an
endoscope, a flexible tube with a camera and an endoscopic suturing device
attached, and it will be inserted down your throat into the stomach.
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The tiny camera allows the doctor
operating the endoscope to see and operate inside your stomach without making
incisions in your abdomen.
- · Using the endoscope, the doctor places approximately 12 sutures in the stomach. The sutures change the structure of your stomach, leaving it shaped like a tube.
After ESG:
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You will not be allowed to eat for
eight hours.
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After the initial eight hours, you
will be allowed to start a liquid diet, which you will continue for one week.
- · Approximately two weeks after the procedure, you will move on to semisolid foods, and then to a normal, healthy diet.
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