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Article History

Received: 16 June 2020

Revised: 29 October 2020

Accepted: 10 November 2020

First Online: 19 November 2020

Compliance with Ethical Standards

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: Anna Carolina Hoff is a shareholder in Hoff medical group. Saowanee Ngamruengphong is a consultant at Boston Scientific. Mouen A. Khashab is a consultant for Boston scientific, Medtronic, Olympus America, GI Supply, and Triton. Manoel Galvao Neto is a consultant and proctor in Fractyl Labs and USGI. He is a consultant and proctor on the Scientific Advisory Board of GI Dynamics. He provides faculty in training courses and is a consultant and proctor at Apollo EndoSurgery. He is a consultant at Colubris Mx. He provides faculty in training courses for Ethicon EndoSurgery, OlympusAmerica, and Medtronic. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of Keyron (UK). Vivek Kumbhari is a consultant for Medtronic, Pentax Medical, Boston Scientific, FujiFilm, Apollo Endosurgery, and Obalon. He receives research support from ERBE USA and Apollo Endosurgery. All other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.