Intragastric Balloon Deaths Lead To New FDA Warning Over Weight Loss Procedure
The FDA is requiring new label warnings of intragastric weight loss balloon surgeries, which have been linked to a number of deaths in recent years.
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Weight Loss Balloon Deaths Result in FDA Warning
The FDA warns that at least five patient deaths have been linked to complications with intragastric weight loss balloons and investigators are still trying to ascertain the cause of those…
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Weight Loss Balloons Linked To Pancreatitis, Over-Inflation Adverse Events: FDA Warns
The FDA warns that surgical balloons implanted in the stomach to promote weight loss can overinflate and could also cause cases of acute pancreatitis.
