9th September 2010 - Crospon, an Irish medical device developer based in Galway, has announced results of a study presented at the 15th Annual Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO 2010), in Long Beach, CA.The study which took place at the Speciality Surgery Center of Fort Worth, TX, a Center of the AIGB True Results clinical network, the largest gastric band placement network in the world, under the direction of Principal Investigator Dr. Robert G. Snow, demonstrated that 30% of the patients measured achieved greater than 30% excess weight loss in the 4-6 week period after surgery. Even though they had a band adjustment during surgery, no patient required their band to be loosened in the post-operative period.
Crospon develops leading edge minimally invasive medical devices for monitoring, diagnosis and therapy in the gastroenterology area. Earlier this year Crospon launched its EndoFLIP® product in the U.S. market at the 12th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in National Harbor, Washington DC. The EndoFLIP® product which received FDA clearance in December 2009 is the first product of its kind, which allows a bariatric surgeon to measure and set a consistent gastric band stoma size during surgery... Crospon's Press Release -
