Durasphere

I thought I'd learnt about all the technologies out there for treating GERD .. however, for some reason, I missed this one:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19185691

Anyone has any info on this one?

Got a reference to the above from this article here (which is quite an interesting read):

laparoscopy.blogs.com/prevention_management_3/2010/08/endoluminal-therapies-for-gastroesophageal-reflux-disease-and-obesity.html

Yeah - endoluminal injectable agent (so with an endoscope presumably). That trial report is from 2009 - and the date of the trial itself is from 2005/2006. So, I suspect it never panned out or didn't get FDA approval - or otherwise we would've heard more about this. I've sent an email to the contacts listed on carbon medical's website: www.carbonmed.com/productset.htm

Post Edited (PPI-LESS) : 12/6/2011 7:45:55 PM (GMT-7)