Stoma Fix Procedure? On today's eps. of The Doctors

I was watching today's episode of "The Doctors" and they talked about new procedure called the Stoma Fix. This is for people who did not succeed with Bariatric surgery. It a tube thingy that is put down your esophogous (sp??) and it hits the stomach wall and creates 'pleates'  in the wall that make the stomach smaller and give people more restriction. A lady who lost alot of weight wiht gastric bypass then started regaining so she had this done and is losing again...Hadn't heard of it before.
Tammy

Wow, nope I never heard about it before.

Most of the reports I've read over the last 6 months indicated that it might not be that successful.

StomaphyX  is the name you can google for info another one is the Rose procedure which is similar. one pleats one sutures the pleats

Thanks for clarifiying how to spell it so others know how to search it. I just sounded it out  from what I heard on tv  :-)

Over the last year and a half, quite a few people have posted on the revisions board about it and subsequently had the procedure (both the stomaphyx and the rose).   They were very excited about it at first.  It was the "big thing" last summer!  They all initially lost from 15-30 lbs  (mainly from the pre and post op special diets and the sore throat after the procedure) and then GAINED IT ALL BACK!   Six months later, the same people who thought the Stomaphyx would do the trick all had full revisions.   At the time it wasn't covered by insurance and cost from $8000-12,000 - just to lose 20 lbs that came right back on!    It didn't matter how many rows of pleats the surgeon put in - even the most aggressive Stomaphyx doctors did not have success with it.    The Stomaphyx uses plastic fasteners and the other similar procedures use a different type of fastener - I can't remember the name of the one that used actual sutures.   There were three procedures that were all the rage in Summer 2008 - I think the other two were called "ROSE" and "RESTORE".    There may have been one called "EROS" (or that one may have also been known as "ROSE").   Not one of them had good results.  

The docs who are doing it now have probably just gotten the training recently and have no experience with it - there were about 6 docs in the U.S. originally trained in it back in 2007 and they are not even doing it anymore.