Moveable Magnets Used to Forge Gastric Bypass in Pigs

May 21st, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

MONDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) — In a scenario reminiscent of
the film Fantastic Voyage, researchers have found a way to perform
nearly surgery-free gastric bypass procedures in pigs using only a local
anesthetic.

The procedure, done with moveable magnets, is completed in less than a
half-hour, the researchers said, and reroutes the digestive tract without
leaving behind any foreign material.

Although pigs may not seem to be “the best model for looking at
resolution of obesity and diabetes,” porkers who were treated with the new
system gained less weight than did the controls, said the study’s senior
author, Dr. Christopher Thompson.

Thompson, an assistant professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in
Boston, is presenting his findings at the Digestive Disease Week meeting
of gastroenterologists in San Diego. He spoke to reporters at a Monday
press conference.

Gastric or intestinal bypass surgery is effective treatment against
obesity, diabetes and even some cancers and involves rerouting different
parts of the intestine so that certain areas of the digestive tract are no
longer needed.

The procedure typically involves invasive surgery, with all its
attendant complications and risks.

However, the procedure used in this study is called SAMSEN (for
Self-Assembling Magnets for Endoscopy). Here, researchers inserted two
magnets via a catheter into the foregut and the hindgut of five pigs. Once
inside the intestine, the magnets were manipulated to find each other and
“mate” — squeezing on the unneeded tissue until it died and shriveled
away.

Within a few days this method worked to create a surgical bypass
(formally called an anastomosis) that connected two previously separate
parts of the gastrointestinal tract. Three months after the procedures,
these bypasses were still large and open.

The procedure, if validated in other animal models and in humans, might
someday aid in the fight against obesity, diabetes and even some forms of
cancer, the authors stated.

Similar procedures have been tried before but they involved just one
magnet, meaning that only small bypasses could be performed. This new
system would allow for larger bypasses.

This study was funded by the U.S. Department of Defense as well as
Beacon Endoscopic, which developed the SAMSEN system.

A second study, also being presented at Digestive Disease Week, showed
that a tiny endoscope nicknamed the “mermaid” that is propelled by a
magnet and a fin could safely travel the entire human digestive tract and
provide accurate images of the stomach as well as the small and large
intestines.

Currently, capsule endoscopies rely on the digestive tract’s natural
movements to move it through the system. Not only does this process take
time, but doctors also cannot control the direction of the camera.

The human volunteer in this study was the study’s senior author,
69-year-old Naotake Ohtsuka, president of Mu Ltd., which developed the
device. He is also professor emeritus at Ryukoku University in Seta,
Japan.

“The device moved safely by itself without injuring our volunteer
subject and it took more images than the conventional capsule endoscope,”
Ohtsuka said in the press briefing. “We conclude that the mermaid will be
applied in the clinical diagnosis of the whole digestive tract in the
future.”

In a third and final study being presented at the meeting, researchers
determined that a new high-definition, dual-focus colonoscope may enable
doctors to diagnose during a colonoscopy whether small polyps in the colon
are benign or malignant.

With such a technology, “doctors would feel certain enough in real
practice to do this and not have to send the specimen to a pathology lab,”
said study senior author Dr. Roy Soetikno, a physician with Palo Alto
Veteran’s Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif.

That study was funded by Olympus America, which makes the device and is
currently marketing it.

Findings presented at medical meetings are typically considered
preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.

More information

The U.S.
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has
more on colonoscopies.