Patent ID: 9572700
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: A61F,A61L

Claim:
1. A method of promoting weight loss by delivering particles into a human subject's left gastric artery, the left gastric artery having a proximal portion, a mid segment, and a distal portion, the method comprising the steps of: introducing a microcatheter into the mid segment or the distal portion of the human subject's left gastric artery; and delivering, via the microcatheter, a plurality of particles with sizes between 300 and 500 μm into the distal portion of the subject's left gastric artery, so that the plurality of particles cause endovascular flow reduction or interruption in the distal portion of the subject's left gastric artery but the plurality of particles do not block the proximal portion of the subject's left gastric artery.