Still being tested on animal models but pretty exciting nonetheless.
Currently, there are three clinically viable surgical alternatives for obesity: gastric bypass surgery, gastric pacing and endoscopic gastric banding. These procedures have varying success rates; they are invasive, require extensive gastric/bowel reconstruction or external devices and can have significant surgical complications, explained Charles Y. Kim, M.D., assistant professor of radiology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., and lead investigator on one of the studies.
Our promising results led us to believe that a minimally invasive interventional radiology treatmentcalled bariatric arterial embolizationwould allow for precise targeting of a specific portion of a persons stomach in order to decrease production of ghrelin, a hormone that causes hunger. This treatment could one day be the answer for those who have not been successful with weight loss through diet and exercise, said Kim.
http://www.cisionwire.com/society-o...entional-radiology-treatments-coming,c9232954
Currently, there are three clinically viable surgical alternatives for obesity: gastric bypass surgery, gastric pacing and endoscopic gastric banding. These procedures have varying success rates; they are invasive, require extensive gastric/bowel reconstruction or external devices and can have significant surgical complications, explained Charles Y. Kim, M.D., assistant professor of radiology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., and lead investigator on one of the studies.
Our promising results led us to believe that a minimally invasive interventional radiology treatmentcalled bariatric arterial embolizationwould allow for precise targeting of a specific portion of a persons stomach in order to decrease production of ghrelin, a hormone that causes hunger. This treatment could one day be the answer for those who have not been successful with weight loss through diet and exercise, said Kim.
http://www.cisionwire.com/society-o...entional-radiology-treatments-coming,c9232954
