European LINX Users Group and Reflux Meeting, Hamburg Germany

Mr. Saj Wajed attended and chaired one of the sessions of the European LINX Users Groups meeting in Hamburg, Germany, 17th-18th October 2013.

The Meeting was hosted by Professors Schopmann and Reigler and attended by Surgeons and Gastro-enterologists from throughout Europe with a special interest in Reflux Disease. Dr John Lipham, from University of Southern California, Los Angeles was invited as a guest speaker, and shared the current North American experience.

He reported that now FDA approval  had been achieved, it was expected that there would be in the order of 1000 LINX  procedures carried out in the United States in 2014.