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– endoluminal surgery is performed on an outpatient and consists of reducing the stomach oral without incisions or scars

-the first patients who have undergone this technique have lost an average of 15 pounds in two months

Barcelona, 2011-June more than two months since the Centro Médico Teknon digestive Endoscopy Unit to carry out, for the first time in Spain reduction of stomach by endoscopic route without practising any incision, the medical team expressed high satisfaction in the results obtained to date. A total of nine patients who have been subjected to this new technique, the first four have asked for an average of 15 kilos during the first two months. All patients claim that they have declined your feeling of hunger and none has presented complications or discomfort.

Nine interventions were carried out in outpatient with admission to hospital of day and 12 hours after the operation patients have obtained medical discharge. Within 24 hours of the intervention all patients have resumed their normal activity and a month later have been able to start eating a balanced diet conventional guided by an interdisciplinary team formed by endocrinologists, nutritionists, psychologists under the supervision of specialists in digestive system.

Procedure POSE (Primary Obesity Surgery Endoluminal or Endoluminal primary surgery for obesity) is to reduce the stomach by mouth through the use of a few points of suture anchors that substantially decrease gastric cavity-shaped. The stomach’s ability is limited, and the patient has a high satiety eating a small amount of food.

Surgery for natural orifices provides important benefits to patients as being treated minimally invasive reduces post surgery pain, reduces the risk of wound infection in the absence, contributes to aesthetics by absence of scars, recovery is faster and hospital stays are short or on an outpatient.

Endoscopic route is especially recommended for those patients with overweight or obese with (BMI) body mass indexes between 34 and 40 kg/m2; that you have failed the dietary treatments.

It may also be appropriate for those patients who intragastric or Bariatric Surgery not have worked them or who do not want to undergo major surgery.

In Europe and USA 74 interventions using POSE with highly satisfactory results have been: average reduction of 32% of excess weight during the first 6 months after the operation.

The Endoscopy Unit and testing functional digestive of Centro Médico Teknon, created in 1994, is coordinated by the doctors Jorge Espinós and Jesús Turró and mission is to provide a modern endoscopy supported in the most advanced technology which allows both the diagnosis and the realization of therapeutic techniques that avoid the need in many cases recourse to conventional surgery. Endorsed by 17 years of professional practice, the Endoscopy Unit of Teknon is international referent in the endoscopic technique and has practiced more than 160,000 endoscopic explorations.