FMOL Health | Our Lady of the Lake is among the first five U.S. centers offering the GI Windows magnetic anastomosis platform, an surgical technology that uses magnets to help create an anastomosis, or a surgical connection between two parts of the gastrointestinal tract.
Surgeons at Our Lady of the Lake Robotic Surgery Institute recently performed their first procedure using the platform.
An anastomosis is commonly performed in gastrointestinal surgery when surgeons need to reconnect sections of the digestive tract. The GI Windows platform is designed to use magnetic compression to help create that connection.