Mercy Medical in Rockville Center leads StomaphyX bariatric surgery project
Rockville Center, NY
Dr. Shawn Garber, chief of bariatric surgery at Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre, and a hospital team have been training surgeons from across the country in a noninvasive procedure that reduces stomach size in patients who have had previous weight-loss surgery.
Mercy is one of just three hospitals nationwide -- the others are in Ohio and Florida -- selected by EndoGastric Solutions of Redmond, Wash., to train surgeons how to use its StomaphyX device to perform stomach surgery without making an incision. In addition to Garber, Dr. Spencer Holover also performs the StomaphyX procedure.
The device is inserted into the mouth and through the esophagus to the stomach, where it can tighten existing pouches formed by previous gastric bypass surgery. During bypass, surgeons make a pouch out of a small portion of the stomach, and food is directed to it. The pouch's small size makes patients feel full sooner, helping them to eat less and lose weight. More >>
Labels: bariatric surgery, StomaphyX
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