Complications

Principal complications

• abdominal pain,
• nausea, vomiting ithe first few days,
• Gastric perforation, pharygo-oesophageal injury
• Balloon migration leading to intestinal occlusion
• Gastric wall ulcer
• Acute pandreatitis
• Spontaneous balloon overinflation

Restriction of activity : It is strictly forbidden for the patient to go scuba diving or fly in an unpressurised aircraft. Practising combat or extreme sports is also not recommended.