What the ColonRing™ is

The ColonRing™ is a medical device that helps your colon heal after colon surgery. Your surgeon places the ColonRing™ so that it reconnects the two parts of your colon after your surgery. Inside your body, the ColonRing™ applies gentle pressure to the sections of your colon until they completely and naturally grow back together. This usually takes about 7 to 10 days. After healing is complete, the ColonRing™ is expelled from your body, leaving healthy tissue and no foregin body within your bowel lumen.

ColonRing™ Natural Healing after Colorectal Surgery

• What is BioDynamix™ Anastomosis?
• What are the advantages of the ColonRing™?
• What is the alternative?
• Has the ColonRing™ been well tested?
• Will I feel the ring when it is expelled?
  
  

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What is BioDynamix™ Anastomosis?

Anastomosis is the surgical connection of two parts of a hollow organ, such as the colon. The technology used in the ColonRing™ is called BioDynamix™ Anastomosis because it encourages natural, biologic healing and because it is dynamic, or active, in applying the gentle pressure needed for healing. 
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What are the advantages of the ColonRing™?

The ColonRing™ offers important benefits compared to other methods of repairing the colon. It preserves the widest possible opening in the colon following surgery. It helps prevent scar tissue and it exits your body after healing is complete, leaving nothing behind in the bowel lumen.
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What is the alternative?

Before the ColonRing,™ surgeons usually reconnected the colon using surgical staples. They stay in the body permanently. In addition, the colon often becomes narrower at the area that has been stapled.
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Has the ColonRing™ been well tested?

The safety and effectiveness in the ColonRing™ have been shown in clinical trials and in use by surgeons around the world. The ColonRing™ has been used in patients in North America, Europe, Israel, South Africa and China, and has been shown to be safe and effective. 
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Will I feel the ring when it is expelled?

In clinical trials and regular use, surgeons report that very few patients even notice the ring when it leaves their body. Of those who do, none have reported discomfort.
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The ColonRing™ does not eliminate the complications associated with the surgery or the anastomosis, which may include leakage, stricture, bleeding, septic complications, extra-colonic complications and others, which are the same to those reported with other methods (e.g. staplers).

 

 Watch ColonRing™ patients and surgeon talking about their surgery and experiences    

NiTi Surgical Solutions is a medical device company. As such, the company cannot provide any personal medical advice or guidance. Please talk to your physician, colorectal surgeon or general surgeon about whether the ColonRing™ is right for you.

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To find out more about NiTi™ Surgical Solutions, our unique technology and product portfolio, or for information on surgeons using our products, please contact  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

For more information about BioDynamix™ Anastomosis please refer to the Technology Overview page. 
Read more on conditions relating to the colon, rectum and anus at the American Society of Colon and Rectal Cancer web-site. 

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