Doctors at the Mayo Clinic have come up with a new kind of weight loss surgery. Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty is a minimally invasive procedure that takes two hours and can help patients loose up to 40 pounds.
Doctors at the Mayo Clinic have come up with a new kind of weight loss surgery.
Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty is a minimally invasive procedure that takes two hours and can help patients loose up to 40 pounds.
A successful clinical trial with ten people began in 2012.
Designed for patients who aren’t morbidly obese, and don’t qualify for gastric bypass surgery, it is an outpatient procedure to help people avoid some of the other health problems associated with being overweight.
The procedure constricts the stomach, making the patient feel full longer and after eating less food.
With an estimated cost of ten thousand dollars, the implant can be reversed or adjusted to match the person’s specific health needs.
Doctor Christopher Gostout, who worked on the clinical trial is quoted as saying: “It gives us the signal that we can go back down, tighten things up and remodify the sleeve that we create...we can do that throughout the patient's life. The procedure is a lot simpler to perform, it's an opportunity for many, many more patients.”
