Waldrep WRAP

The “ Waldrep WRAP ” (Weight Reduction Assistance Procedure) is a surgical procedure that has the goal of simply decreasing the amount of food the stomach will hold to create a “comfortably full” feeling.

If effective, a person could eat less food to feelfull; less food means less calories, leading to a lower body weight and improved health. This technique should be used with an effort to decrease calories by taking an appropriate diet.

Many patients prefer the differences between the WRAP procedure and other available operations for weight loss.

WRAP:

• is an outpatient procedure
• does not open, staple, divide, or rearrange the intestinal tract
• does not cut away and discard healthy stomach
• does not leave an artificial device inside the body that requires needle-stick adjustments; or repairs, replacements, repositioning, or removal
• does not require an overnight hospital stay

Having performed thousands of laparoscopic stomach and weight loss surgeries, Dr. Waldrep researched this technique for several years as part of a surgical device development project. Dr. Waldrep performed the first WRAP in August 2009, and has a leading national experience providing this technique.

Similar surgical techniques have been referred to by different names, including:

• Gastric Plication Surgery (“GPS”)
• Gastric Imbrication
• Greater Curve Plication
• Total Gastric Folds
• Laparoscopic Total Gastric Vertical Plication
• Greater Curve Inversion Surgery