About the ROSE Procedure
The ROSE procedure (Restorative Obesity Surgery, Endoluminal) provides an incisionless surgical option for patients who have regained weight years after successful Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. This unhealthy weight regain may be caused by a gradual enlargement of the small stomach pouch or stoma (the connection between the pouch and small intestine), reducing the restriction that helps trigger the feeling of fullness and limits food intake.
Special instruments are used to create and suture folds into the pouch, in order to reduce its volume, and at the stoma, to reduce its diameter to post-Roux-en-Y bypass proportions. The surgeon performs the procedure entirely through the mouth without making any external incisions into the body.
Performing ROSE is expected to provide important advantages, including, less risk than traditional open or laparoscopic surgery, minimal post-operative pain, fast recovery time and no scarring – all at a significantly lower cost.