Satiety, Inc.

J Stephen Scott

Thomas A Howell

George D Hermann

Robert T Chang

David B Willis

Roger A De La Torre

Neil D Holmgren

David Shields

Craig R Gerbi

Douglas S Sutton

Gary B Weller

Jamy Gannoe

Gilbert Mata, Jr

A space occupying device for deployment within a patient's stomach and methods of deploying and removing the device. The device includes an expandable member and fasteners, such as sutures, that extend to least partially through the patient's stomach wall, and that anchor the device with the patient's stomach. The device can be deployed and/or removed through transesophageal approaches and/or through a combination of transesophageal and transabdominal approaches.

Method and device for use in minimally invasive placement of intragastric devices

Method and device for use in minimally invasive placement of space-occupying intragastric devices

Methods and devices for use in tissue approximation and fixation are described herein. The present invention provides, in part, methods and devices for acquiring tissue folds from the anterior and posterior portions of a hollow body organ, e.g., a stomach, positioning the tissue folds for affixing within a fixation zone of the stomach, preferably to create a pouch or partition below the esophagus, and fastening the tissue folds such that a tissue bridge forms excluding the pouch from the greater stomach cavity. The present invention further provides devices for performing a transoral, endoscopic hollow organ division, including a tissue acquisition device capable of acquiring the desired tissue, a tensioning device for positioning the acquired tissue, and a fastening element to secure the outer layers of the acquired tissue such that the desired healing response is achieved.

Method and device for use in tissue approximation and fixation

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