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Continuing its leadership in bariatric surgery, Dr. Shawn Garber has become the first in the Northeast to utilize a new imaging device that facilitates the adjustment of gastric banding in the operating room during weight loss procedures.

The EndoFLIP (Endolmenal Functional Lumen Imaging Probe) Imaging System enables the surgeon performing a laparoscopic banding (LAP-BAND ®) procedure to make adjustments to the device that reduces the size of the stomach while the patient is still in the operating room, potentially improving weight loss immediately after surgery and minimizing the likelihood of complications.

Endoflip During Lap-Band Surgery to Increase Weight Loss

“Until now, adjustments to the band that constricts the stomach were made in the weeks following the surgical procedure,” explained Dr. Shawn Garber, Mercy’s Chief of Bariatric Surgery. “With the EndoFLIP system, we can visualize the band during the surgery and adjust it to the correct size to limit the patient’s food intake but avoid possible adverse affects such as gastric reflux.”

Dr. Garber noted that the EndoFLIP system can also be used to improve long-term weight loss with the new gastric sleeve procedure, by more accurately measuring stomach volume and also when performing EsophyXTM transoral incisionless surgery for the treatment of intractable GastroEsophageal Reflux Disease (GERD).

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