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SELF-ADJUSTING GASTRIC BAND

  • US 20120095288A1
  • Filed: 05/31/2011
  • Published: 04/19/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2010
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A self-adjusting gastric banding system for the treatment of obesity that adjusts to allow a bolus to pass through a constriction in a patient'"'"'s stomach formed by the self-adjusting gastric banding system, the self-adjusting gastric banding system comprising:

  • a gastric band having an inflatable portion disposed about the stomach of the patient, the inflatable portion capable of constricting the stomach;

    an access port fluidly coupled to the inflatable portion, the access port capable of receiving a fluid to inflate, or for removing a fluid to deflate, the inflatable portion of the gastric band;

    a tubing coupled to the gastric band and the access port, the tubing carrying fluid between the inflatable portion of the gastric band and the access port; and

    a compliant reservoir attached to at least a portion of the tubing and configured to receive fluid from the inflatable portion of the gastric band for automatically relaxing the constriction formed by the inflatable portion of the gastric band sufficiently to allow the bolus to pass through the constriction.

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