6 results about "GERD" patented technology

An implantable device for the treatment of acid reflux disease has a body including an outer surface adapted to rest against a patient's fundus wall. The device, when implanted in the patient, fills a volume in the patient's abdomen in the cardia area and above the cardia of the patient, when standing. The body prevents the cardia from moving through the diaphragm opening into the thorax, thereby preventing reflux by keeping the abdominal pressure supporting the cardia sphincter muscle. The device may be affixed to stomach tissue. The device may also be invaginated or otherwise indirectly secured in position.

Abstract The present invention relates to a reflux disease treatment apparatus, comprising two or more movement restriction device segments adapted to form an implantable movement restriction device with an elongated shape that maintains cardia in the correct position. The movement restriction device has proximal and a distal end, wherein the distal end is adapted to stabilize and hold the proximal end. The invention further comprises a control device for controlling the stimulation device to stimulate the cardia sphincter. The distal end can be further adapted to treat obesity, for example by stretching the wall of the stomach or filling out a volume of the stomach. Abstract The present invention relates to a reflux disease treatment apparatus, comprising two or more movement restriction device segments adapted to form an implantable movement restriction device Mar with an elongated shape that maintains cardia in the correct position. The movement restriction device has proximal and a distal end, wherein the distal end is adapted to stabilize and hold the proximal end. The invention further comprises a control device for controlling the stimulation device to stimulate the cardia sphincter. The distal end can be further adapted to treat obesity, for example by stretching the wall of the stomach or filling out a volume of the stomach. 20 24 21 64 87 30 A ug 2 02 4 A b s t r a c t

A surgical method of treating reflux disease comprising the steps of dissecting an outside of a fundus of a stomach at least partially down on a posterior side of the outside of the fundus, dissecting an esophagus such that the esophagus is disconnected from surrounding tissue at least 3 cm in a cranial direction from an angle of His, connecting the fundus to the esophagus, and placing an implantable movement restriction device between the angle of His and a diaphragm, such that a lower esophageal sphincter is prevented from sliding through an esophageal hiatus.

A movement restriction composition for use in a method of treatment of reflux disease treatment by surgery, the movement restriction composition comprising 50% - 100% silicone or 50% - 100% polyurethane. A coronal plane of the patient divides the esophagus of the patient in an anterior half and a posterior half. The treatment by surgery comprises dissecting an area of the patient's stomach, affixing the stomach fundus wall to the lower part of the patient's esophagus by providing sutures or staples, creating a pouch in the stomach fundus wall, and placing and in-vaginating the movement restriction composition in the pouch by providing sutures or staples to the stomach fundus wall. The center of gravity of the movement restriction composition can be positioned dorsal to the coronal plane for preventing the cardia from sliding through the patient's diaphragm opening into the patient's thorax.

A surgical method of treating reflux disease comprising the steps of dissecting the fundus at least partially down on the posterior side thereof; in the approximate direction towards bursa Omentalis, as well as away from the spleen. The method further comprising the steps of dissecting the esophagus such that the esophagus is disconnected from the surrounding tissue at least 3 cm in a cranial direction from the angle of his and connecting the fundus to the esophagus by placing at least two posterior single sutures in a posterior suture line, or a posterior continuous suture line, connecting the fundus to the esophagus, on the sinister-posterior side of the esophagus, and placing at least two anterior sutures, in an anterior suture line, or an anterior continuous suture line, connecting the fundus to the esophagus, on the sinister-anterior side of the esophagus. The method further comprises placing an implantable movement restriction device between the angle of His and the diaphragm, such that the lower esophageal sphincter is prevented from sliding through the esophageal hiatus.

An implantable medical device for treating reflux disease, the implantable medical device comprising a movement restriction device (110) configured to be fixated to the stomach wall for hindering movement of the lower esophageal sphincter relative to the thoracic diaphragm. The movement restriction device comprises central part (111e), and at least two outer parts (111a-d) configured to be connected to each other along a vertical plane. The at least two outer parts are configured to be connected to the central part for forming at least a portion of a functional movement restriction device. The central part comprises at least one horizontally extending rim (151h1-4) and the central part has a contacting surface configured to contact at least one surface of the at least two outer parts, and wherein a portion of the horizontally extending rim is wedge-shaped with an angle in the range 20° - 60°.