Contraindications
The presence of one of the following conditions is a contraindication to the insertion of the balloon:
- Previous history of gastric surgery;
- Digestive pathology: large hiatus hernia (> 5 cm), active peptic ulcers, severe oesophagitis either Grade III or IV (Savary-Miller classification) or Grade C or D (Los Angeles classification), Crohn's disease or any other digestive tract lesion that could bleed, pyloric stenosis and anomalies in the structure of the digestive tract
- Diseases which could affect the vital prognosis in the short to medium term
- Severe cognitive or mental disorders
- Severe eating disorders that are not stabilized
- Alcoholism, drug addiction
- Treatment with platelet aggregation inhibiting drugs or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory without adjuvant treatment with acid-blockers
- Anticoagulants
- Foreseeable inability of the patient to take part in a prolonged medical follow-up
- Absence of previously identified medical treatment
- Pregnancy, desire for a pregnancy during treatment with the balloon
- Severe liver disease
- Haemostatic disorder
- Helicobacter pylori infection.
Some of these contraindications may be temporary.