Patent ID: 8481076
Filing Date: 2013-07-09
Classification: A61F,A61K,A61P

Abstract:
1. A bariatric procedure, comprising: delivering a predetermined, initial dose of a plurality of individual ingestible magnetic, space-filling portions, wherein said portions include a magnetic component having plural magnetic axes, which portions magnetically come together within the stomach of a human patient to form a resulting structure that provides therapeutic bariatric benefit to the patient, further comprising delivering, with said predetermined, initial dose, a predetermined amount of protein/peptide so as to induce closure of the pylorus of the stomach and thereby retain such space-filling portions within the stomach to promote magnetic assembly of the plurality of magnetic, space-filling portions as an initial seed aggregate larger than about 4.8 cm in diameter; and subsequently delivering periodic lower predetermined doses of a plurality of individual ingestible magnetic space-filling portions that are provided with a predetermined amount of protein/peptide so as to induce closure of the pylorus of the stomach and thereby retain such space-filling portions within the stomach to promote magnetic assembly of the plurality of magnetic, space-filling portions; wherein the space-filling portion has plural faces and each face is associated with a different magnet.