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SECCA
For the more
than 5.5 million Americans needing treatment for fecal
incontinence, options
vary depending on disease severity and pathophysiology. For
patients who have experienced fecal incontinence for at
least three months, at least once a week, and in whom
initial measures such as dietary modification, pelvic
exercises, bulking agents, pharmacologic therapy and
biofeedback have failed, an innovative, yet simple, new
option may offer significant alleviation.
The Secca procedure offers an effective, minimally invasive,
outpatient procedure for the treatment of fecal
incontinence. The FDA-cleared Secca procedure, documented in
recent peer review journals, has demonstrated improvement of
fecal incontinence in a majority of patients. The Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved the Secca
procedure for payment as a new technology in June 2004 for
the treatment of fecal incontinence. Individuals are
considered Secca candidates when they have severe fecal
incontinence, have failed conservative therapies and are not
candidates or are not amenable to surgical intervention.
The Secca System consists of a four-channel radio frequency
generator and the Secca handpiece, a single-use device
delivering energy to the muscles of the anal canal. It sends
precisely controlled radio frequency energy to create
thermal lesions in the muscle of the anal sphincteric
complex. Over several months, these lesions heal, collagen
is deposited and the tissue contracts, changing the tone of
the tissue and improving continence in many patients. The
procedure usually takes 30 to 45 minutes. Patients typically
can go home 1 to 2 hours post-procedure.
Studies show that Secca procedure patients feel minimal
pain, require no general anesthesia and have few
complications. In a five-center, 50-patient U.S. study
published in Diseases of the Colon and Rectum, 60 percent of
Secca-treated patients had significant improvement,
averaging a 70 percent reduction in symptoms six months
after the Secca procedure.
Conservative estimates of those suffering from fecal
incontinence are 2.2 percent of the general and 6.5 percent
of the elderly population. Studies also indicate that
patients are so embarrassed about fecal incontinence that
they fail to report the condition, even to their doctors.
Secca, performed by proven SJH Colorectal Specialists, now
offers many of these individuals profound Relief of
suffering, embarrassment and depression.
About The Secca
System
The Secca
System provides physicians with devices to perform a
minimally invasive outpatient procedure for the treatment of
bowel incontinence in patients who have failed more
conservative therapy such as diet modification and
biofeedback. The Secca System utilizes the same technology
and treatment concepts as the Stretta System. Using the
Curon Control Module and the Company's Secca disposable
handpiece, physicians deliver radiofrequency energy into the
muscle of the anal sphincter to improve its barrier
function.
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