Methods and devices for reducing hollow organ volume

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7708684
APP PUB NO 20050192601A1
SERIAL NO

11067598

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Methods and devices for providing a minimally-invasive placement of a mechanical structure for reducing the volume of a hollow body organ. Intragastric bands may be secured within the hollow body organ and then reduced in diameter to form a stricture within the hollow body organ. The strictures may be placed anywhere within the hollow body organ, and more than one stricture may be formed within the hollow body organ.

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ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY INC4545 CREEK ROAD CINCINNATI OH 45242

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Demarais, Denise Marie Saratoga, US 5 944
Gannoe, James West Milford, US 32 8354

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