Method and apparatus for reducing obesity

Details Method and apparatus for reducing obesity Method and apparatus for reducing obesity

1976-12-27

1979-01-09

Truluck, Dalton L.

Surgery

Truss

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128246, 128344, A61B 1700

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041333152

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for reducing obesity in human beings having an inflatable bag to which a flexible tube is attached. The bag is positioned in the stomach, usually by swallowing, and the tube extends up through the esophagus and out of a nasal cavity or out from the abdomen when a gastrostomy is performed. The bag is inflated by attachment of a supply of fluid to the end of the tube, and then the tube is closed so that the bag will maintain its inflated conditon. With a portion of the open cavity of the patient's stomach occupied by the inflated bag, the patient will sense a feeling of being "filled-up" with only a small amount of food intake.

REFERENCES:
patent: 157343 (1874-12-01), Molesworth
patent: 3046988 (1962-07-01), Moreau et al.
patent: 3081773 (1963-03-01), Isaac

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