Endoluminal Suturing Being Studied to Reverse WR/IWL After Initial Bariatric Surgery
UCSF Bariatric Surgery - - July 08, 2014
The December 2013 issue of San Francisco Medicine, the Journal of the San Francisco Medical Society, reportes on the pioneering work of Matthew Y.C. Lin, M.D. and Stanley J. Rogers, M.D., who are among those pioneering an incisionless endoscopic procedure called endoluminal suturing for patients who either have either: 1) gained weight 2) or failed to lose sufficient weight following bariatric surgery. This describes a phenomenon know as WR/IWL that occurs in 1 in 5 or 20% of bariatric surgery patients.
It has been observed that the initial gastric bypass anatomy may enlarge or [...]