L’endoscopie bariatrique et métabolique. États des lieux et futur

Abstract

Obesity and overweight are proving to be pandemic public health problems that significantly reduce the life expectancy of those affected. Obesity has a significant medico-economic impact, in relation to the treatments it requires and its comorbidities. In France, the therapeutic management of this pathology is limited to a lifestyle modification or a surgical approach. Endoscopy has allowed the development of therapeutic alternatives in the management of obesity in recent years, although not all of these methods are currently recommended in France, even though convincing results have been shown. With the advent of organ-sparing interventional endoscopy, innovative minimally invasive therapeutic procedures have emerged and will tend to develop in order to take a full place in the treatment of this chronic disease. More ambitious endoscopic procedures could also be combined, thus combining the different modes of action of each of them. Finally, with the availability of new effective drug treatments, combined “endoscopy-drug” approaches could be newly defined to achieve unprecedented clinical effectiveness. The objective of this review will be to present the current endoscopic techniques available for the management of obesity, to discuss the innovative procedures under development and to outline the future of bariatric endoscopy, either by combining procedures or by combining them with medical therapies.