Surgical Technology

Report: Biomaterial buttress in gastric bypass staple line lessens failure risk

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, February 14th, 2005

Synovis Life Technologies, Inc. (SYNO) announced publication of data showing that using Peri-Strips, the company's biomaterial buttress, to reinforce the staple line during laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery reduced the possibility of acute staple-line failure and gastrointestinal leakage.

Either complication is serious, with estimated mortality rates reported as high as 30%. The report was written by Dr. Scott A. Shikora, FACS, chief of the Division of Bariatric Surgery at Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, and the results were published in a recent issue of Obesity Surgery.

The initial study evaluated 250 laparoscopic gastric bypass...

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