Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty reduces the size of your stomach using an endoscopic suturing device used a newer type of weight-loss procedure. Endoscopic sleeve transorally over an endoscope. This procedure may be an option you’re significantly overweight-a body mass index of 30 or and diet and exercise haven’t worked for you. Like other weight loss more programs, however, a commitment to a healthier lifestyle will help to ensure long-term success and permanent weight loss. In addition to weight loss. Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty can also lower your blood sugar and potentially address other serious weight-related problems.

To qualify for the endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty procedure, you should:

• Be 18 or older
• Have a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher
• Be willing to participate in a medically supervised weight loss program

During ESG :

• 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.
• The tiny camera allows the doctor to operate 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. This restricts the amount of calories your body absorbs and the amount of food you can eat..

After ESG:

• You will not be allowed to eat for eight hours.
• After the initial eight hours, you will be allowed to start a liquid diet, which you will continue for one week.
• Approximately two words after the procedure, you will move on to semisolid foods, and then to a normal, healthy diet.