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Article History

Received: 8 October 2025

Accepted: 26 October 2025

First Online: 17 November 2025

Declarations

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: All disclosures were reviewed. Dr. Patricia Sylla had relevant disclosures including consulting fees received from Stryker, Boehringer, Activ Surgical, Olympus, Medtronic, Ethicon, Safeheal. However, she participated as an external advisor and provided extensive feedback to the manuscript but did not participate as a panelist, was not in panel discussions and did not vote. Dr. Deborah S Keller’s institution affiliation has a grant from Arthrex; however, this is not to her and is to the institution only. She receives consulting fees from Medtronic for robot development, unrelated to FIGS/ ICG technology. Dr. Bethany J Slater receives consulting fees from Hologic, unrelated to FIGS/ ICG technology. Dr. Farah Husain teaches multiple advanced bariatric courses and one fellow’s bariatric surgery course over the last 36 months for both Ethicon/J&J and W.L. Gore. The payments were for travel to courses and teaching honoraria. She also moderated an Ethicon breakfast at the annual ASMBS meeting 2024. None of these courses discuss FIGS/ICG technology. They discuss advanced bariatric surgery and revisional surgery for practicing surgeons and/or fellows. Dr. Elisa C Calabrese and Dr. Dena Shehata receive funding from the SERF grant through SAGES. Dr. Sunjay Kumar, Dr. Stefan Scholz, Dr. Ziad Awad, Dr. Jeffrey Chiu, Dr. Subhashini Ayloo, Dr. Nisha Narula, Dr. María Rita Rodríguez-Luna, Dr. Guy Maddern, and Dr. Panagiotis Kapsampelis had nothing to declare.

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