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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2025

Comparison of Efficacy of Intragastric Balloon Devices as Bridging Therapy Prior to Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Tomasz Klimczak, Krzysztof Słowiński, Alicja Majos, Jacek Śmigielski, Wojciech Ciesielski

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Tomasz KlimczakDepartment of General and Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Lodz, 90-153 Lodz, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-7589-1141
Krzysztof SłowińskiDepartment of General and Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Lodz, 90-153 Lodz, Poland.
Alicja MajosDepartment of General and Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Lodz, 90-153 Lodz, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-6554-1831
Jacek ŚmigielskiDepartment of General and Oncological Surgery, Provincial Hospital in Sieradz, 98-200 Sieradz, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-4287-8159
Wojciech CiesielskiDepartment of General and Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Lodz, 90-153 Lodz, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-5566-6745

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

bridge therapyintragastric balloonlaparoscopic sleeve gastrectomysuper-obesityweight loss outcomes

Identifiers

PMID41226998
PMCPMC12610645

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