Aspiration therapy
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Aspiration therapy is a bariatric approach to siphon ingested food from the stomach via an implanted tube and port to the outside of the body to be discarded. The device for this approach was developed by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis to treat obesity and has been named AspireAssist. The device has also been termed a reverse feeding tube. It was approved by the Food and drug Administration (FDA) on June 14, 2016. The device is removable. Removal is performed on an outpatient basis and requires about ten minutes.
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