Monmouth Medical Center is the first hospital in New Jersey to perform the incision-free procedure, coined “ROSE” (Restorative Obesity Surgery, Endolumenal). ROSE reduces the size of a patient’s stomach pouch and stoma to the original post-gastric bypass proportions to help them back onto the path of weight loss. Gastric bypass surgery offers the most effective means possible to lose weight. It is not, however, always a permanent fix. Up to 44 percent of patients who undergo gastric bypass begin to regain weight – and the dangerous co-morbidities associated with it – a few years after their initial operation. Studies show that post-gastric bypass weight regain sometimes occurs because the stomach pouch and the opening to the small intestine (the stoma) slowly stretch out, allowing the patient to eat more without feeling full. Invasive procedures to restore the anatomy to the original post-surgery proportions have been too complicated and dangerous for most patients, leaving them without any feasible treatment options. The ROSE procedure avoids cutting through scar tissue and instead allows the surgeon to get his tools to the stomach through the mouth and esophagus. Once there, the doctor can reduce the size of the stomach pouch and the opening to the intestine from the inside, without having to cut through previously damaged tissue. By eliminating skin incisions, this new procedure may provide important advantages to patients including reduced risk of infection and associated complications, less post-operative pain, faster recovery time and no abdominal scars. 

A second chance for a trimmer you.