TOGA – Is This the Weight Loss Surgery of the Future?
“TOGA” or “Transoral gastroplasty” could be the new safe
r route for people looking for surgery as a solution to their weight loss surgery.
While more and more obese people are looking to surgery as a way to lose weight there are possible complications both during and after surgery, due to the patients poor health and the added stress of surgery on their bodies.
But TOGA could mark a real difference to all this.
Rather than normal weight loss surgery the patient has to undergo a medical procedure TOGA can be done without even making a single incision. The entire medical procedure is done by using flexible instruments that are passed down a patient’s throat to reach the stomach.
There the stomach is stapled to around the size of an egg; this then restricts the amount of food the patient can eat at any one time, which should lead to a loss of weight.
Researchers in Chicago, have presented this procedure for the first time and although it’s not yet available to the public early results look promising.
Dr. Kai Nishi a bariatric surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center reported that it’s too early to tell if people will lose as much weigh with this as other conventional treatments, but he was hopeful.
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