Slides from recent presentation at Mayo Clinic course on advances in gastroenterology. These are the slides that are a part of the video presentation of this same talk.
1. Lower Esophageal Sphincter
Augmentation With Linx
Advances in Technology and
Understanding of Esophageal Disease
January 11, 2013
Mayo Clinic Education Center
Phoenix, Arizona
C. Daniel Smith, MD
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2. Conflict of Interest / Disclosures
- Co-PI for one of the sites who participated
in the Pivotal Trial
- Advisor/consultant to Torax for preparation
of the presentation to FDA
- Joined company for presentation to FDA
- Paid consultant to company helping with
safe and successful introduction of Linx to
care of GERD patients
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3. Fundoplication
• Great operation
• Select patients do very well
• Superior to PPIs
• Significant positive impact on natural history
of GERD
• Multiple studies have confirmed its
effectiveness and role in treatment of GERD
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4. GERD - Current Treatment Options
Fundoplication Surgery
PPI Therapy PPI Therapy
Fundoplication
Surgery
st ne t a P DRE G. o N
Severity of Symptoms and Dissatisfaction
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Mild Severe
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5. Fundoplication
• Use of fundoplication for GERD has
peaked, use slowly declining
• GIs have largely stopped referring patients
except for desperate or complicated cases
• Most cases are done for complicated conditions
(redo, large hiatal hernia, Barretts, severe
refractory GERD
• PPIs remain treatment of choice for all but the
most severe cases of GERD
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6. Fundoplication – Why Not?
• Technical failures – inconsistent and
questionable outcomes
• Lack of standardized approach/technique
• Inconsistent use – patients still have fundoplication
performed without objective confirmation of GERD
• Patients are afraid of the operation – troubling side-
effects of gas bloat and excess flatus or perception
that failure rate is 50%
• Competing treatments – primarily PPIs, some
endolumenal approaches
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7. GERD - Current Treatment Options
No standard treatment for Gap patients
PPI Therapy Targeted Linx
population
Therapy Gap
Fundoplication
Surgery
st ne t a P DRE G. o N
Severity of Symptoms and Dissatisfaction
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Mild Severe
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23. Serious Adverse Event - Linx
Subject ID Event Description Status
03-005-004 Dysphagia Explanted 31 days after implant Resolved
Nausea
03-004-004 Dysphagia Explanted 93 days after implant Resolved
Odynophagia
03-008-021 Dysphagia Explanted 21 days after implant Resolved
03-008-018 Pain Hospitalized for pain; Resolved (pain)
Vomiting Explanted 357 days after implant for Ongoing, no follow-up
vomiting deemed necessary
(vomiting)
03-008-020 Vomiting Hospitalized 2 days after implant for <2 Resolved
days
03-018-002 Nausea Hospitalized 2 days after implant for <2 Resolved
days
No device migration or erosion
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24. The Successful LINX Patient
Post-LINX
Baseline
% of Pts
% of Pts Characteristic
3 Years
100% Daily PPI dependence 8%
70% Reflux affecting their sleep on a daily basis 2%
76% Reflux affecting their food tolerances on a daily 2%
basis
57% Moderate or severe regurgitation including 1%
aspirations
55% Severe heartburn affecting their daily life 1%
51% Experiencing extra esophageal symptoms in 12%
addition to heartburn and/or regurgitation
40% Esophagitis 11%
25. Patient Selection - Linx
INDICATION
The LINX Reflux Management System is indicated for patients
diagnosed with GERD as defined by abnormal pH testing, who
continue to have chronic GERD symptoms despite maximum
medical therapy for the treatment of reflux.
• Age 18 + • No active esophagitis > grade b
• Hiatal hernia < 3cm • No Barrett’s
• Normal esophageal motility • BMI < 35
26. Summary / Conclusion - Linx
• Device closely reproduces native LES
function - dynamic
• Improvement over current surgical options
• Addresses a significant unmet need
• Positively transforms patients’ lives
• LINX would be a tremendous positive
addition to current options for GERD
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Hinweis der Redaktion
Our goals when deliver healthcare should be to provide the right care, to the right patient, at the right time. It is critical that we do that will maintaining or increasing the value of the healthcare we deliver. In doing this variability is the enemy.
With this understanding, there have been several key principles that have guided our efforts. These include isolating the unpredicatble variation of the urgent/emergent practice, Natural Variation, from the manageable and modifiably variation of the elective practice, Artificial Variation. Design a process to create a predictable and more consistent surgical schedule, Limit the number of changes we make to the elective schedule on the day of surgery, and maintain the integrtity of our surgical teams so that patients can benefit fomr the expertise and quaity we deliver through our team-based care.
Our goals when deliver healthcare should be to provide the right care, to the right patient, at the right time. It is critical that we do that will maintaining or increasing the value of the healthcare we deliver. In doing this variability is the enemy.
Our goals when deliver healthcare should be to provide the right care, to the right patient, at the right time. It is critical that we do that will maintaining or increasing the value of the healthcare we deliver. In doing this variability is the enemy.
With this understanding, there have been several key principles that have guided our efforts. These include isolating the unpredicatble variation of the urgent/emergent practice, Natural Variation, from the manageable and modifiably variation of the elective practice, Artificial Variation. Design a process to create a predictable and more consistent surgical schedule, Limit the number of changes we make to the elective schedule on the day of surgery, and maintain the integrtity of our surgical teams so that patients can benefit fomr the expertise and quaity we deliver through our team-based care.
Our goals when deliver healthcare should be to provide the right care, to the right patient, at the right time. It is critical that we do that will maintaining or increasing the value of the healthcare we deliver. In doing this variability is the enemy.
Our goals when deliver healthcare should be to provide the right care, to the right patient, at the right time. It is critical that we do that will maintaining or increasing the value of the healthcare we deliver. In doing this variability is the enemy.
Our goals when deliver healthcare should be to provide the right care, to the right patient, at the right time. It is critical that we do that will maintaining or increasing the value of the healthcare we deliver. In doing this variability is the enemy.
Our goals when deliver healthcare should be to provide the right care, to the right patient, at the right time. It is critical that we do that will maintaining or increasing the value of the healthcare we deliver. In doing this variability is the enemy.
Our goals when deliver healthcare should be to provide the right care, to the right patient, at the right time. It is critical that we do that will maintaining or increasing the value of the healthcare we deliver. In doing this variability is the enemy.
Our goals when deliver healthcare should be to provide the right care, to the right patient, at the right time. It is critical that we do that will maintaining or increasing the value of the healthcare we deliver. In doing this variability is the enemy.
Our goals when deliver healthcare should be to provide the right care, to the right patient, at the right time. It is critical that we do that will maintaining or increasing the value of the healthcare we deliver. In doing this variability is the enemy.
Our goals when deliver healthcare should be to provide the right care, to the right patient, at the right time. It is critical that we do that will maintaining or increasing the value of the healthcare we deliver. In doing this variability is the enemy.
Our goals when deliver healthcare should be to provide the right care, to the right patient, at the right time. It is critical that we do that will maintaining or increasing the value of the healthcare we deliver. In doing this variability is the enemy.
Our goals when deliver healthcare should be to provide the right care, to the right patient, at the right time. It is critical that we do that will maintaining or increasing the value of the healthcare we deliver. In doing this variability is the enemy.
Our goals when deliver healthcare should be to provide the right care, to the right patient, at the right time. It is critical that we do that will maintaining or increasing the value of the healthcare we deliver. In doing this variability is the enemy.
Our goals when deliver healthcare should be to provide the right care, to the right patient, at the right time. It is critical that we do that will maintaining or increasing the value of the healthcare we deliver. In doing this variability is the enemy.
Our goals when deliver healthcare should be to provide the right care, to the right patient, at the right time. It is critical that we do that will maintaining or increasing the value of the healthcare we deliver. In doing this variability is the enemy.
Our goals when deliver healthcare should be to provide the right care, to the right patient, at the right time. It is critical that we do that will maintaining or increasing the value of the healthcare we deliver. In doing this variability is the enemy.
Our goals when deliver healthcare should be to provide the right care, to the right patient, at the right time. It is critical that we do that will maintaining or increasing the value of the healthcare we deliver. In doing this variability is the enemy.
Our goals when deliver healthcare should be to provide the right care, to the right patient, at the right time. It is critical that we do that will maintaining or increasing the value of the healthcare we deliver. In doing this variability is the enemy.