Introduction

T2D, weight loss, bleeding
HAND INFECTION, STRICTURE, BLEEDING, TYPE 2 DIABETES
Metabolic/bariatric surgery (MBS) is safe and markedly more effective and durable than medical therapy in attaining weight loss and type 2 diabetes (T2D) resolution [Safe anastomosis formation has long been a surgical aim. In 1826, Lembert inaugurated a model for enhanced healing and anastomotic patency by suturing the apposed serosal surfaces of small bowel (enterorrhaphy) [Interest in intestinal CA reignited in the 1980s with Kanshin et al.’s AKA-2 colorectal CA device [Our group developed a novel MCA technology, the magnet anastomosis system (MS), that creates an incisionless, sutureless intestinal anastomosis without retained materials. Healing occurs gradually over several weeks, facilitating optimal collagen deposition in the formation of a robust anastomosis that may markedly lessen bleeding, leak, stricture, and infection. Our study of the prototype MS in animals demonstrated short-term safety and feasibility [