New Treatments in Bariatric Surgery

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last decade, with the purpose of preventing the GERD, much interest has been paid to stomach sparing procedures, and several techniques have emerged with an important focus on bariatric endoscopy and various gastroplasty techniques. Less invasive endoscopic procedures are under development for the management of patients suffering from the morbid obesity disease. These new bariatric procedures should not be seen as a menace for traditional bariatric surgery, but, instead, they should be considered as a new addition to the treatment arsenal for obesity. Even if the initial results are encouraging, the durability and long-term results are highly debatable. Laparoscopic BariClip gastroplasty represents a non-resection procedure with more restriction than endoscopic procedures. Possessing the advantages of reversibility by clipping and not cutting the stomach, the BariClip procedure reproduces similar effects to a gastric sleeve.

Different new topics concerning the GERD (esophageal manometry), as well as new recommendations (e.g., pregnancy after bariatric surgery, the management of biliary lithiasis or systematic recoding), will be thoroughly discussed in the current Special Issue.

Dr. Marius Nedelcu
Guest Editor

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