Sean Snow,Mitchell H. Babkes,Marcos Borrell,Christopher R. Deuel,Zachary P. Dominguez,Ethan Franklin,Babak Honaryar,Erik Torjesen
申请号：
US13149585
公开号：
US20120095288A1
申请日:
2011.05.31
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要：
Generally described herein are automatic, self-adjusting, gastric banding systems and improvements thereof, that are capable of automatically relaxing and contracting in response to a large bolus passing through the area of a patients stomach constricted by a gastric band. Alternatively, and/or in addition in one or more embodiments, the gastric banding systems described herein may also help prevent pouch dilatation and/or erosion. The apparatus and systems described herein aid in facilitating obesity control and/or treating obesity-related diseases while generally being non-invasive once implanted. Furthermore, certain embodiments of the self-adjusting gastric banding systems disclosed herein are automatically adjustable without complicated fluid control mechanisms, flow rate limiting devices, and/or valves. The automatic adjustments may also be made in response to other changes in the patients esophageal-gastric junction, for example, in response to size, shape, and or location changes.
