For patients who have had bariatric surgery, and basically need a little help afterwards with weight gain, this new procedure allows for an incisionless procedure to reduce the size of the gastric pouch, in other words help for those who have regained weight after the fact, this procedure can offer some relief without going through an entire cutting operation again and having another scare to heal. This is still in the clinical trial mode. BD
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., June 23, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ ----USGI Medical Inc. (USGI) announced today that leading experts presented clinical evidence showing that its EndoSurgical Operating System(TM: 97.85, +0.14, +0.14%) (EOS: 17.51, -0.31, -1.73%) enables surgeons and physicians to use an incisionless technique to reduce the size of the gastric pouch and stoma in patients who've regained weight after initial success with gastric bypass. Results of two studies found that the procedure had good clinical success with only very minor side effects. Clinicians presented the data at the annual American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) 2008 conference that took place in Washington, D.C. last week.
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