If the balloon were to deflate, the blue dye would get absorbed into the bloodstream and turn the urine green,” he says. “That would be a sign to take it out – before it migrates out of the ...

In a clinical study, patients who used the balloon lost an average of 21.8 pounds after those 6 months and had maintained an average of 19.4 pounds lost 3 months after the balloon was removed.

An inflatable balloon. Gastric balloons filled with saline are currently approved for use in the United States. These balloons stimulate a sense of fullness in the stomach, and studies have shown ...

Health risks from inserting and removing the balloon are very low. Life After the Gastric Balloon Is Removed. Gastric balloon placement helps you jump-start your long-term weight loss. It is only the ...

The Gastric Balloon is not covered by insurance and costs about $8,000 including the lifestyle coaching before and after the process.

The drug was started one to four months after balloon placement. After 16 weeks, participants lost an average of 29 pounds and 14% of their initial body weight. They also shed an average of 74% ...

A new procedure to help people lose weight adds to the stomach, instead of shrinking it. This technique doesn't change anything physical, except for the weight.

"Before meets after 2 months in with my Allurion gastric balloon and am a happy child!" she wrote. Matubia underwent the procedure just a few months after welcoming her second child and in just ...

Early studies showed the gastric balloon helped animals cut their daily food intake by 60%. "The basic concept is we can have this balloon that is dynamic, so it would be inflated right before a ...

In an alert issued Thursday, the FDA said that from 2016 to the present, five “unanticipated deaths” had occurred within a month or less in patients who had liquid-filled gastric balloon ...