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ReviewJournal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR2015

Bariatric embolization of the gastric arteries for the treatment of obesity.

Clifford R Weiss, Andrew J Gunn, Charles Y Kim, Ben E Paxton, Dara L Kraitchman, Aravind Arepally

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Review in Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. An ambulatory, vascular surgery office-based approach to bariatric artery embolization.Journal of vascular surgery cases and innovative techniques · 2026
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  4. Obesity: An Overview for the Interventional Radiologist.Seminars in interventional radiology · 2024
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  5. Bariatric Artery Embolization for Obese Patients. An Up-to-Date Review.Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology · 2023
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  11. Comparison of Weight Loss, Ghrelin, and Leptin Hormones After Ligation of Left Gastric Artery and Sleeve Gastrectomy in a Rat Model.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Clifford R WeissVascular and Interventional Radiology Center, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins Hospital/The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Electronic address: cweiss@jhmi.edu.
Andrew J GunnVascular and Interventional Radiology Center, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins Hospital/The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Charles Y KimDepartment of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
Ben E PaxtonDepartment of Interventional Radiology, Yavapai Regional Medical Center, Prescott, Arizona.
Dara L KraitchmanDivision of MR Research, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins Hospital/The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Aravind ArepallyDivision of Interventional Radiology, Piedmont Radiology, Atlanta, Georgia.
Johns Hopkins University · USDuke Medical Center · USJohns Hopkins Hospital · USRadiology Associates · USRegional Medical Center · US

Funding

Image-guided Bariatric Arterial Embolization (BAE) for the Treatment of ObesityR01EB017615 · NIBIB · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI KRAITCHMAN, DARA L, WEISS, CLIFFORD RAABE · 2013 to 2016
$1.4M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB017615
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obesity is a public health epidemic in the United States that results in significant morbidity, mortality, and cost to the health care system. Despite advancements in therapeutic options for patients receiving bariatric procedures, the number of overweight and obese individuals continues to increase. Therefore, complementary or alternative treatments to lifestyle changes and surgery are urgently needed. Embolization of the left gastric artery, or bariatric arterial embolization (BAE), has been shown to modulate body weight in animal models and early clinical studies. If successful, BAE represents a potential minimally invasive approach offered by interventional radiologists to treat obesity. The purpose of the present review is to introduce the interventional radiologist to BAE by presenting its physiologic and anatomic bases, reviewing the preclinical and clinical data, and discussing current and future investigations.

Indexed as

AdultAnimalsEmbolization, TherapeuticHumansObesityStomach

Identifiers

PMID25777177
PMCPMC4414740
OpenAlexW2027479620

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Registered trials

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