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Results Support Durability of Incisionless Weight Loss Surgery
USGI Medical has announced results that show durability of the company’s Expandable Tissue Anchors beyond one year, enabling a variety of incisionless gastrointestinal (GI) procedures, including the approved ROSE (Restorative Obesity Surgery, Endolumenal) procedure for gastric bypass revision and the investigational POSE (Primary Obesity Surgery, Endolumenal) procedure for weight loss. By demonstrating that stomach tissue [...]
Read the full article →Weight Loss Surgery Removes Excess Stomach Via Mouth
According to surgeons at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, they have successfully performed the first sleeve gastrectomy weight loss procedure through the mouth. With sleeve gastrectomy, also known as the gastric sleeve, about 80 % of the stomach is sectioned off and permanently removed from the body. The smaller stomach leads [...]
Read the full article →Advancements in Weight Loss Surgery to Help Moderately Overweight and Diabetic
Although weight loss surgery has traditionally been considered the treatment of last resort for severe obesity, new treatments and safer techniques are making surgical intervention a potentially suitable option for a greater amount of overweight individuals. As we start a new year, it is a good time to review some of the innovative procedures that [...]
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