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Article: Ethicon Endo-Surgery Acquires Swedish Adjustable Gastric Band; Device Used in Surgery for the Morbidly Obese.
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- June 27, 2002
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CINCINNATI -- Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company, has acquired Obtech Medical AG, a privately held Swiss company that markets the Swedish Adjustable Gastric Band (SAGB), expanding its line of products used in the treatment of morbid obesity. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Though not yet available in the United States, the SAGB has been widely used throughout Europe for the treatment of morbid obesity since 1987, and was later introduced in other countries. The SAGB is an inflatable band that is fitted around the uppermost part of the stomach during laparoscopic surgery, creating a small pouch and restricting food consumption. ...