Patent ID: 8109895

Claim:
A method of inducing weight loss or treating Type II diabetes in a patient, comprising: intraorally accessing the patient's intestine with a implant system having a deployment sheath dimensioned to extend, at its distal end, to a region within the patient's intestine, and an intestinal implant having a self-expandable anchor with a distal end and inner and outer sides, and an elongate flexible sleeve attached at one sleeve end to the anchor such that the one sleeve end wraps around the distal end of the anchor, covering the anchor's distal end and outer side, where said anchor is releasable from the distal end of said sheath and the sleeve is disposed within the sheath in an everted condition; anchoring the implant within the intestine by releasing the anchor from the sheath, causing the anchor to expand from a radially compressed position within the sheath to a radially expandable position outside the sheath for engagement with a wall of the intestinal lumen; and before or after said anchoring, deploying said sleeve through the anchor and positioning the sleeve within the intestine, downstream of the anchor, wherein the sleeve's inner surface within the sheath forms the sleeve's outer surface outside the sheath, and the inner and outer sides of the anchor are covered by the sleeve.