While various forms of bariatric surgery have become quite common
in recent years, a new type of weight loss procedure, the gastric
plication, has shown remarkable promise.
Compared with the earlier, popular procedures, gastric plication surgery (GPS) gives patients the same weight-loss results while being much less invasive, posing minimal risk, and generally allowing for a speedier recovery period.
Similar to other bariatric surgeries, GPS helps patients lose pounds by reducing the size of the stomach, which allows patients to feel full sooner and thus limit caloric intake. There is no type of stapling, surgical excision, or other removal of stomach tissue, and no medical implants need to be inserted into the body.
GPS uses a "gastric sleeve" that is similar to the device used in the sleeve gastrectomy. Unlike other procedures, GPS reduces the stomach capacity by folding the stomach over on itself, and then surgically stitching it closed.
The preliminary results of gastric placation surgery done for severely obese patients have been very promising, and it is being viewed as a safe and effective procedure for weight loss.
The following are some of the benefits of Gastric Plication surgery, which:
If the results of gastric placation surgery continue to be positive, the procedure may become more easily available in the U.S. in the coming few years.
Severely obese patients seeking a less-invasive form of weight loss surgery may want to see if they would qualify for a study that uses this new procedure. The following are clinical trials currently being offered in the U.S.
Laparoscopic Gastric Plication Operation for Patients With Severe or Morbid Obesity- (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01207609). This study lists a start date of December 2010, with an estimated completion date of December 2013. Contact the Hamilton Medical Center in Dalton, Georgia.
Surgical Intervention in Bariatric Patients: Excess Weight Loss in the Morbidly Obese Following Gastric Plication- (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01077193) This study is currently recruiting participants at Ohio State University Medical Center. The start date was November 2009 and the completion date is August 2013.
Compared with the earlier, popular procedures, gastric plication surgery (GPS) gives patients the same weight-loss results while being much less invasive, posing minimal risk, and generally allowing for a speedier recovery period.
Similar to other bariatric surgeries, GPS helps patients lose pounds by reducing the size of the stomach, which allows patients to feel full sooner and thus limit caloric intake. There is no type of stapling, surgical excision, or other removal of stomach tissue, and no medical implants need to be inserted into the body.
GPS uses a "gastric sleeve" that is similar to the device used in the sleeve gastrectomy. Unlike other procedures, GPS reduces the stomach capacity by folding the stomach over on itself, and then surgically stitching it closed.
The preliminary results of gastric placation surgery done for severely obese patients have been very promising, and it is being viewed as a safe and effective procedure for weight loss.
The following are some of the benefits of Gastric Plication surgery, which:
- Involves no removal of tissue, cutting or stapling
- Gives patients weight loss results comparable to other currently used weight loss procedures
- Can be performed as laparoscopic surgery
- Does not need a medical implant, such as gastric banding
- Does not cause malabsorption, which is more common in gastric bypass surgery
- Can be reversed easily
- Poses minimal risk
- Has a speedy recovery period
- Is the least expensive weight loss procedure available
If the results of gastric placation surgery continue to be positive, the procedure may become more easily available in the U.S. in the coming few years.
Severely obese patients seeking a less-invasive form of weight loss surgery may want to see if they would qualify for a study that uses this new procedure. The following are clinical trials currently being offered in the U.S.
Laparoscopic Gastric Plication Operation for Patients With Severe or Morbid Obesity- (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01207609). This study lists a start date of December 2010, with an estimated completion date of December 2013. Contact the Hamilton Medical Center in Dalton, Georgia.
Surgical Intervention in Bariatric Patients: Excess Weight Loss in the Morbidly Obese Following Gastric Plication- (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01077193) This study is currently recruiting participants at Ohio State University Medical Center. The start date was November 2009 and the completion date is August 2013.
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