Methods and devices related to fluid delivery catheters and more particularly relates to catheters used to deliver fluid to medical devices and/or position medical devices.

The present disclosure provides an intragastric implant capable of inducing the feeling of satiety from inside the stomach, together with a delivery device for delivering said implant. The system and method provides greater access to minimally invasive weight loss procedures for patients who are only overweight or obese, reducing the risks associated with more invasive procedures.

The invention relates surgical abdominal methods of treating obesity in a patient by implanting a volume filling device that, when implanted in a patient, reduces the food cavity in size by a volume substantially exceeding the volume of the volume filling device. Also disclosed is a laparoscopic instrument for providing a volume filling device to be invaginated in the stomach wall of a human patient to treat obesity.

An apparatus for treating obesity comprises a volume filling device formed by at least two segments and is provided and following implantation, the device is placed resting against the stomach wall of the patient to reduce the inner volume of the stomach, thereby affecting the patients appetite.

An obesity treatment apparatus comprises at least one operable stretching device implantable in an obese patient and adapted to stretch a portion of the patient's stomach wall, and an operation device for operating the stretching device when implanted to stretch the stomach wall portion such that satiety is created.

Valve assemblies for use with expandable devices that are positioned within remote cavities and more particularly relates to the catheters/conduits used to inflate these devices with fluid.

A gastric outflow device is described. The gastric outflow device includes a ring having a ring aperture; and a topper having a topper aperture, the topper attachable to the ring, the topper aperture alignable with the ring aperture to form the gastric outflow device aperture. The gastric outflow device aperture can be adjusted wirelessly, percutaneously, by replacing the topper, and/or by including an expandable compartment surrounding the aperture, the expandable compartment increasing and decreasing the gastric outflow device aperture on being filled with filling material and having the filling material extracted, respectively.

A device (10) for treatment of obesity or diabetes comprises a duodenal tube (12), first anchor (14) arranged at a pre-defined distance (D) from a proximal end (15) of the duodenal tube (12). The first anchor (14) is adapted for anchoring the tube (12) distally to the pylorus (P) without mucosal involvement. A second anchor (17) in the form of a conical, inflatable balloon is used for anchoring the device (10) in the stomach (S) of the patient. The duodenal tube (12) is flexible and can be arranged in the duodenum (D) and in the jejunum (J) of the patient.

The present subject matter provides a system for temporarily stopping blood flow through a blood vessel, the system including: at least one magnetically attractive element configured to be introduced into an internal part of a body of a patient, and temporarily placed near a first blood vessel that supplies blood to at least one second blood vessel; and at least one magnetic field generator configured to be placed outside a body of the patient, and generate a magnetic field that attracts the at least one magnetically attractive element in a manner that the at least one magnetically attractive element presses the first blood vessel, thereby stopping flow of blood through the first blood vessel toward the second blood vessel. Additional embodiments of the system, of a kit comprising components of the same, and a method for temporarily stopping blood flow through a blood vessel, are disclosed herein as well.

A device for implanting an inflatable intra-gastric balloon for implanting the intra-gastric balloon into a stomach, comprising: —an elastically deformable sheath configured to receive the intra-gastric balloon in the deflated state, the sheath comprising a side wall, —a tube configured to be supplied with a fluid and to cause the fluid to inflate the intra-gastric balloon, the tube comprising a mouthpiece, the intra-gastric balloon being attached to the mouthpiece in the deflated state and being detached from the mouthpiece in the inflated state, the mouthpiece having an inflation position wherein the mouthpiece extends in the cavity of the sheath, and the side wall of the sheath having a side opening configured to release the intra-gastric balloon from the cavity when the intra-gastric balloon moves from the deflated state to the inflated state.