Entries by Esther

Endoscopic Gastric Bypass Repair

When a person with obesity undergo an obesity surgery, gastric bypass or gastric sleeve surgery, the goal is to reduce the stomach capacity so that the patient has a sensation of satiation and fullness. The procedure meets its goal but it has been proven that, after a few years, problems may arise in some cases. […]

1st Thesis on the endoscopic treatment of obesity

Recently, Dr Jorge Carlos Espinós – a member of our medical team – presented a doctoral thesis on the endoscopic treatment of obesity. The thesis, titled “The endoscopic treatment of obesity. POSE technique using the incisionless endoscopic operating platform (IOP). Prospective pilot study: clinical efficacy and physiological impact”, is the world’s first publication on the […]

Our medical team leads the way in Medical Training in the POSE Method

Several studies that have been published (including the first study in the world on the results of the POSE Method), our results regarding weight loss, the effectiveness and maintaining of the weight lost in the long term, and the improvement of diseases associated with obesity, including hypertension and type 2 diabetes, among others, have resulted in our […]

Endoscopy treatment of obesity: Bariatric Endoscopy

The different types of bariatric surgery (gastric bypass, gastric sleeve…) are the only therapies with proven results and are suitable in the treatment of morbid obesity. But they have a significant degree of morbidity, death and alteration of the quality of life, and they are not exempt from the possibility of recovering the lost weight. […]

Aspire Assist: Training for recognized medical professionals in the new aspiration therapy system against obesity

The Endoscopy and Digestive Functional Testing Unit of Quirón Teknon Hospital has pioneered the introduction of an aspiration therapy system (Aspire Method) at both the national and European level. ………. Thus, the medical team has become a beacon in this technique to treat morbid obesity through endoscopy, having performed so far in about twenty cases. […]