![]() How much weight can you expect to lose from SIS? The recovery time is also much faster than traditional surgery. SIS is a minimally invasive endoscopic procedure, so it doesn’t require any incisions on the outside of your body and you won’t have any external scars. SIS typically takes less than an hour to complete. Several plications are placed to make the sleeve smaller. The system has several components that are used together to fold and fuse the stomach. While under anesthesia, your doctor inserts the endoscopic system into your mouth and passes it into your gastric sleeve. SIS works by using sutures to create plications (folds) to decrease the volume of the sleeve. SIS is an endoscopic procedure that helps restore the tightness of the sleeve to the size it originally was following the surgery. When weight regain happens, it can be due to some stretching of the sleeve. SIS is an endoscopic plication treatment for sleeve gastrectomy patients who are struggling with weight regain. SIS is a revision procedure, meaning it's only appropriate for certain patients who’ve already had a sleeve gastrectomy. ![]() We currently are the only site on the East Coast that is approved to perform this procedure. This is a newer procedure that was developed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2018. We currently offer an endoscopic revision procedure to treat weight regain after sleeve gastrectomy, called sleeve-in-sleeve (SIS). ![]()
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