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Abstract

An improved gastrostomy tube comprising a main conduit having a slanted outlet port at a lower end. A balloon is affixed to the lower end of the main conduit and about the slanted outlet port. A valve stem is connected at an angle to an upper end of the main conduit. A one-way valve is affixed to an upper end of the valve stem. An elongated filler pipe extends from the one-way valve through the valve stem and down through a wall of said main conduit into the balloon. A fluid, such as a saline solution/air, can be forced through the one-way valve and the elongated filler pipe, to inflate the balloon into a kidney shape, thereby making it easier and safer to insert the lower end of the main conduit through an opening in a stomach from an opening in an external surface of a body of a person.

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