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US 10,945,870 B2Granted
Apparatus for treating obesity
OwnerPeter Forsellinventor
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Abstract
An volume filling device for treatment of obesity is placed outside the stomach wall of the patient to reduce the inner volume of the stomach, thereby affecting the patient's appetite. By providing the volume filling device outside the stomach wall, contact with stomach acids is avoided, thereby increasing the life of the device.
Claims19
An apparatus for treating obesity of an obese patient, comprising:
- a volume filling device adapted to be completely invaginated by a wall portion of a stomach of the patient,
- wherein the volume filling device is adapted to be placed on the outside of the wall portion, with an outer surface of the volume filling device resting against the outside of the wall portion and such that a volume of a food cavity of the stomach is reduced in size by a volume having a treatment effect on the obesity,
- wherein the volume filling device is formed of at least two distinct portions, each of which having a size allowing it to be inserted in the patient through a gastroscopic instrument, said at least two distinct portions being configured to be reversibly interconnected to each other such that a first one of said least two distinct portions has at least one point of direct contact with another one of said at least two distinct portions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.