EUS-Guided Intragastric Injection of Botulinum Toxin A in the Preoperative Treatment of Super-Obese Patients: a Randomized Clinical Trial.

Eduardo Guimarães Hourneaux de MouraIgor Braga RibeiroMariana Souza Varela FrazãoLuiz Henrique Mazzonetto MestieriDiogo Turiani Hourneaux de MouraCreusa Maria Roveri Dal BóVitor Ottoboni BrunaldiEduardo Turiani Hourneaux de MouraGabriel Cairo NunesFábio Alberto Castillo BustamanteManoel Dos Passos Galvão NetoSergio Eiji MatugumaWanderley Marques BernardoMarco Aurélio Santo

Published in: Obesity surgery (2020)

Intragastric injection of BTX-A does not appear to be an effective method of achieving preoperative weight loss in super-obese patients.

Keyphrases

obese patients
bariatric surgery
weight loss
gastric bypass
botulinum toxin
roux en y gastric bypass
patients undergoing
ultrasound guided
type diabetes
body mass index
insulin resistance
replacement therapy
skeletal muscle