Regaining Weight After Your Bypass?
Every year, more than 100,000 U.S. patients undergo gastric bypass surgery for the treatment of obesity. Most gastric bypass patients obtain excellent weight loss after surgery. Some patients, however, experience weight regain years after their original bypass surgery. This weight regain may be caused by an enlarged pouch or stoma (the connection between the stomach pouch and small intestine). If this has happened to you, UCSD's Center for the Treatment of Obesity now offers an exciting "incisionless" procedure to reduce the size of your stomach down to what it was when your gastric bypass was first performed.
Minimally Invasive Procedure Can Stop Your Weight Gain
A new incision-free procedure can reverse weight gain after gastric bypass surgery. The procedure, called “ROSE” (Restorative Obesity Surgery, Endolumenal), uses instruments inserted through the mouth to reduce the size of your stomach pouch and the opening to the small intestine, recreating the restriction you once had to help you once again achieve weight loss.
How It's Done
To perform the incisionless procedure, a small, flexible endoscope and surgical tools are inserted through the mouth and into the stomach pouch. Sutures are placed in the stomach pouch and stoma to reduce their size. No cuts are made into the patient’s skin during the procedure.The procedure is designed to provide important advantages, including minimal post-operative pain, fast recovery time, and no scarring.
Watch a video animation of the ROSE Gastric Bypass Revision Procedure
Are You a Candidate?
If you were originally successful with your bypass surgery but now find yourself regaining some of your lost weight, you may be an ideal candidate for the new incisionless procedure.
- You may also be a candidate if you underwent bypass surgery but have failed to lose weight
After an initial screening, patients undergo a series of evaluations including nutritional and dietary counseling, a full medical exam, and endoscopy.