Sartoretto, Adrian
Sui, Zhixian
Hill, Christine
Dunlap, Margo
Rivera, Angielyn R.
Khashab, Mouen A.
Kalloo, Anthony N.
Fayad, Lea
Cheskin, Lawrence J.
Marinos, George
Wilson, Erik
Kumbhari, Vivek http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7772-9006
Article History
First Online: 15 February 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: AS, EW, and VK are consultants with Apollo Endosurgery. AS and GM are consultants for BAROnova. VK is also a consultant for Boston Scientific, Reshape Medical, and Medtronic. MAK is a consultant for Boston Scientific and Olympus America. ANK is a founding member, equity holder, and consultant for Apollo Endosurgery. EW is a consultant for Gore, Intuitive, Ethicon, Olympus, and EndoGastric Solutions. The remaining authors disclose no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in the study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. For this type of retrospective study, formal consent is not required.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.