Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty (ESG) for the Treatment of Obesity

Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients with BMI 30 to 50 kg/m2
* Patients that have been unable able to lose weight, or maintain weight loss, through more conservative measures (i.e., lifestyle interventions including diet and exercise) per the FDA approval for the Apollo ESG device. Lifestyle interventions may include traditional diet and anaerobic or aerobic exercise, including resistance training.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients who are actively pregnant
* Active tobacco use (defined as tobacco within 4 weeks prior to the procedure)
* Active gastric mucosal lesions
* Active bleeding or potential bleeding gastric lesions (i.e., ulcers, erosive gastritis, varices, or vascular malformations)
* Neoplastic lesions (i.e., esophageal, gastric, or small bowel cancer)
* Hiatal hernia \>5 cm
* Severe coagulopathy and antiplatelet/anticoagulant therapy that cannot be corrected
* Psychiatric disorders not assessed or cleared by a psychologist or psychiatrist actively participating in that patient's care (i.e., affective disorders not under medical supervision or refractory to medical therapy and all eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, binge eating disorder, specified feeding and eating disorders, avoidant restrictive food intake, and rumination)
* Patients with endoscopic interventions that are contraindicated