Over the past 30 years, more than 100,000 people have lost an average of 10-30 kg of weight with the assistance of gastric balloons. Your individual motivation and willingness to comply with dietary changes and behavior.

modification are important factors in your ultimate success with the Spatz3 Adjustable Balloon.

Patients with certain medical conditions cannot be approved for Spatz3 Adjustable Balloon implantation. The decision to undergo gastric balloon therapy must be made in consultation with a qualified physician.

To ensure maximal success, your doctor will determine exactly which pre-screening assessments will be required in your case. Pre-screening assessment may include any or all of the following: a patient information profile, dietary evaluation, psychological consultation, routine blood tests, chest X-ray and ECG.

To prepare for the insertion, you will be instructed to fast from midnight prior to your procedure.

Most patients have the gastric balloon inserted while under sedation, unless there is a specific clinical reason to proceed differently. The gastric balloon is inserted endoscopically and placed in the stomach, then inflated with saline. You will be discharged and able to return home within an hour.

The gastric balloon can easily be deflated and removed, if required, at any time.

If you experience excessive or prolonged nausea, vomiting or pain, the gastric balloon volume can be diminished with an adjustment procedure.

If your appetite increases, or weight loss plateaus or ceases, the gastric balloon volume can be increased with an adjustment procedure.

The gastric balloon volume can be changed with a 15-minute endoscopy procedure. Preparation requires a liquid diet for 3 full days prior to adjustment followed by fasting from midnight the night before.

Adjustments will be made while you are under sedation. As with the insertion procedure, you’ll be discharged within an hour.

After 12 months, the gastric balloon will be removed with endoscopy, again with the help of sedation. Preparation requires a liquid diet for 3 full days prior to the procedure followed by fasting from midnight the night before. Following removal, you will be discharged within an hour.

With any surgical or medical intervention there are always going to be risks and some complications. Although many are very rare and every effort is made to reduce or prevent them, you need to be fully aware of their existence in order to make an informed decision. Among the risks are:

• Nausea and vomiting
• Bloating
• Peptic ulcer
• Diarrhea
• Reactions to sedation
• Aspiration Pneumonia
• Esophageal/gastric perforation
• Gastro-Esophageal reflux
• Deflation of the gastric balloon and intestinal obstruction

For the first 3-5 days following gastric balloon positioning, you may feel uncomfortable and nauseated. This will pass and every effort will be made to reduce these side effects. You will be offered medication to settle your stomach and relieve the nausea. It is important to take the medication prior to the onset of nausea.

For the first 3 days after insertion, you will begin a liquid-only diet, slowly progressing to a semi-solid diet. Within a week, you’ll be able to resume eating normal textured foods.

Along with the gastric balloon, you will be enrolled in a corresponding behavioral modification program. Attendance at these sessions, learning the behavioral modification principles and compliance with them are of paramount importance to your weight loss success.

Spatz is proud to announce its approval for one year intragastric balloon implantation. Due to the risk of complications, other gastric balloons are restricted to 6 months of use. The Spatz3 balloon is a unique, high-quality injection molded balloon. In our studies, the Spatz3 has been proven safe enough to remain in the stomach for 12 full months. This success allowed the regulatory authorities to approve an extension of implantation of the Spatz3 balloon from 6 months to one year.

It is important to be aware that the first few days with an intragastric balloon can be uncomfortable. You’ll need to overcome unpleasantness and nausea while your body adjusts to the balloon. In a small number of cases, despite real determination, some patients are just unable to manage. Instead of abandoning the patient’s investment in their weight loss program, the physician can perform a simple endoscopy to remove some fluid from the balloon. This adjustment allows the treatment to continue. Our studies have reported improved tolerance of the balloon, yet weight loss continues after a reduction of the balloon volume. Later, when the patient’s body has acclimated, another endoscopy procedure can be performed to increase the gastric balloon volume.

Adjustability is just one of the features that make the Spatz3 Adjustable Balloon System a clear standout in the growing field of non-surgical weight loss therapies.

As the name implies, the Spatz3 gastric balloon is adjustable in size – even once it’s been placed inside your stomach. After the first months of successful weight loss, your body acclimatizes to the balloon and standard intragastric balloons begin to lose their effectiveness. In fact, studies have shown that, with today’s gastric balloons, 80% of the weight loss occurs in the first three months.

Simply leaving the gastric balloon in longer does not increase weight loss significantly. Physicians have told us that they would like to be able to add volume to the balloon – to «top it off», encouraging similar levels of weight loss in the coming months. The unique Spatz3 Adjustable Balloon System allows the physician to perform a simple 15-minute outpatient procedure to add fluid to the balloon at any time. Each volume addition produces a fresh effect, facilitating renewed weight loss and increasing your chances for weight loss success.

The easier a product is for the physician to use, the safer it is for the patient. The Spatz3 Adjustable Balloon System has a unique insertion facilitator to ease the insertion procedure for physicians, resulting in a safer procedure for you.

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