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01.03.2014 | Letter to Editor
Reply to Letter to the Editor from R. Vilallonga and J. Himpens
verfasst von:
Jorge C. Espinos, Roman Turró, Alfredo Mata, Jane N Buchwald, Jesús Turró
Erschienen in:
Obesity Surgery
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Ausgabe 3/2014
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Excerpt
We are grateful to Drs. Villalonga and Himpens for their interest and thoughtful comments in reference to our article on the Primary Obesity Surgery Endolumenal (POSE) procedure [
1] and we appreciate the opportunity to respond. The POSE procedure is not intended to primarily reduce gastric volume but to impact fundal gastric accommodation and overall gastrointestinal motility. Since the publication of the first POSE outcomes, we have presented the preliminary data of a prospective study of 18 patients in whom physiological changes in gastric function were achieved with 12–14 plications in the stomach, representing a statistically significant improvement in satiety and post-prandial peptide response at both two- and six-month follow-up (August 2013, IFSO World Congress, Istanbul, Turkey) [
2]. …