Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Background: The amount of food consumed at each meal is reduced when BIB is present in the stomach. The ghrelin hormone, which affects hunger and energy balance in the body, may not be released as much when the stomach wall is stretched. Aim: The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of ghrelin hormone blood levels and bio-enteric intragastric balloon use in treating obesity. Patients and methods: This pre/post-interventional study was carried out on forty-two morbid obese patients of both sexes, aged 22โ53 years attending to Internal Medicine, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Department, Suez Canal University Hospitals. Patients with other medical comorbidity and patients refused to participate in the study were excluded. All patients were subjected to careful history taking and one-month specific eating regimen with recording of amount and type of food eaten. After 1 month of treatment with a low-calorie diet and physical exercise, the patients performed the BIB. The patients treated with the gastric balloon. The data from scheduled postoperative visits have been recorded, each visit body weight, waist circumference and BMI were recorded, laboratory investigations (CBC, liver enzymes, serum creatinine, lipid profile, and serum Ghrelin) were also recorded for each visit