{"id":1312,"date":"2016-10-14T15:38:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T15:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dr2\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2019-04-24T23:14:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T04:14:12","slug":"intragastric-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drisidroaguilar.com\/en\/2016\/10\/14\/intragastric-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"Intragastric balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The <strong>gastric balloon<\/strong>, also known as the <strong>intragastric balloon <\/strong>or <strong>stomach ballon<\/strong>, is a flexible and soft silicone sphere that is placed into the patient&#8217;s stomach through an <a href=\"http:\/\/drisidroaguilar.com\/en\/endoscopy\/\">endoscopy<\/a>, in order to achieve weight loss for people with morbid obesity. Its a restrictive <a href=\"http:\/\/drisidroaguilar.com\/en\/bariatric-surgery\/\">bariatric surgery<\/a> procedure, focused in creating an early feeling of fullness and satiety, to reduce the consumption of food, which facilitates the process of weight loss.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>gastric balloon<\/strong> is specially designed not to deteriorate in stomach acids. It has a silicone valve that closes automatically when the balloon is full, and it is a product to be used temporarily that requires a commitment on the patient part in re-educating their behavior. Its purpose is to reduce weight during the use of the product, and maintain this loss for a prolonged period once the device is removed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gastric balloon, also known as the intragastric balloon or stomach ballon, is a flexible and soft silicone sphere that is placed into the patient&#8217;s stomach through an endoscopy, in order to achieve weight loss for people with morbid obesity. Its a restrictive bariatric surgery procedure, focused in creating an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bariatric-surgery"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drisidroaguilar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drisidroaguilar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drisidroaguilar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drisidroaguilar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drisidroaguilar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/drisidroaguilar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/drisidroaguilar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drisidroaguilar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drisidroaguilar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drisidroaguilar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drisidroaguilar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}