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Equipment and Supplies > Gastric Balloon

Preferred term

Gastric Balloon  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Bubble, Gastric
  • Bubbles, Gastric
  • Gastric Bubble
  • Gastric Bubbles

Note

  • note category: an inflatable device; do not confuse with digestive gases; used in ther of morbid obesity: note XR & do not coord with OBESITY, MORBID unless particularly discussed

Scope note

  • An inflatable device implanted in the stomach as an adjunct to therapy of morbid obesity. Specific types include the silicone Garren-Edwards Gastric Bubble (GEGB), approved by the FDA in 1985, and the Ballobes Balloon.

History note

  • 98; was GASTRIC BUBBLE 1990-97; GASTRIC BALLOON was see GASTRIC BUBBLE 1990-97

In other languages

  • mahalaukkuilmapallo

    Finnish

  • Garren-Edwards
  • Garren-Edwardsin mahalaukkuilmapallo
  • Garren-Edwardsin ventrikkeli-ilmapallo
  • ventrikkelipallo
  • Intragastrisk ballong

    Swedish

  • Gastrisk ballong
  • Ventrikelballong

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D015905

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