Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty using the novel Endomina device for morbidly obese patients

Treatment of obesity is necessary to reduce morbidity and mortality of itself, as well as secondary diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) is a fairly new technique, first described in 2013 [1]. Since then, several methods have been used for the endoscopic creation of a stomach tube to reduce gastric volume [2] [3].