Richard Stack,Richard Glenn,Trevor Moody,Fred Silverstein,Nathan Every,William Eubanks, JR.
申请号:
US13936132
公开号:
US20130296764A1
申请日:
2013.07.05
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2013
代理人:
摘要:
A device for inducing weight loss in a patient includes a tubular prosthesis self-expandable from a collapsed position in which the prosthesis has a first diameter to an expanded position in which the prosthesis has a second, larger, diameter. In a method for inducing weight loss, the prosthesis is placed in the collapsed position and inserted into a stomach of a patient. The prosthesis is allowed to self-expand from the collapsed position to the expanded position and into contact with the walls of the stomach, where it induces feelings of satiety and/or inhibits modulation of satiety-controlling factors such as Ghrelin.