Georgia Coast Surgical Group Now Offering StomaphyX Non-invasive Surgical Weight Loss Procedure

Apr 19

Posted by admin at 12:25 pm in Weight Control

As the number of obese Americans rises, so does the number of individuals seeking safe, successful, minimally-invasive medical weight loss options. The latest in non-invasive surgical weight loss techniques, endoluminal surgery, is now being offered by Dr. Peter Henderson, a surgeon at Georgia Coast Surgical, a practice that specializes in medical weight loss in Georgia. The procedure, which is performed by passing a tube and a new device called StomaphyX through the esophagus and down to the stomach, requires no incisions and, as a result, has a very fast recovery time and a very low risk of complications.

StomaphyX, approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the spring 2007, is a device that allows a surgeon to make the stomach pouch smaller in revisional gastric bypass surgery. The StomaphyX device pulls the stomach pouch together by making pleats on the inside of the pouch with special fasteners.

It is estimated that about 10-15 percent of individuals who have undergone gastric bypass may need a revisional procedure for one reason or another.

The incidence of major postoperative complications following open or laparoscopic revisional bariatric procedures is substantially higher than the incidence of complications following primary operations. The innovative StomaphyX procedure gives those qualified candidates who need revisional surgery a safer alternative if revisional surgery becomes necessary.

For more information, visit georgiacoastsurgical.com