Our REALIZE Band-C offers a streamlined, pre-curved design and an expanded adjustment range to accommodate larger patients. It provides the same clinically proven high-volume, low-pressure design as the original REALIZE Band, to minimize tissue trauma.

The REALIZE^® Balloon design is backed by proven performance spanning more than 20 years of clinical reports. In fact, no adjustable gastric band is safer or more effective than the REALIZE Band-C.¹

The REALIZE Band-C is:

• Adjustable – Offers a 14% greater stoma adjustment range than the original REALIZE Band.*
• Convenient – A removable band extender with a pre-lock position allows multiple locking techniques and provides greater surface area to grasp the band. A removable one-way valve maintains balloon evacuation during band preparation.
• Wide – 23mm-wide band provides decreased potential for slippage.³
• Efficient – Streamlined, pre-curved band with soft, flexible, low-pressure balloon that eases placement when passed through the retrogastric tunnel.
• Easy to use – Locking and unlocking closing mechanism allows intra-operative repositioning. Radiopaque band and tubing enhances visualization under fluoroscopy.

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* Based on bench top measurements of stoma areas.¹

The REALIZE Adjustable Gastric Band-C

This laparoscopically implanted medical device is used to treat patients with morbid obesity. The implant is a pre-curved silicone assembly that consists of three integral components:

• the reinforcing band
• balloon
• radiopaque tubing

Features include:

• Reinforcing band – provides structural support for the balloon and contains the mechanisms for locking the ends of the gastric band together.
• Ability to unlock if repositioning is necessary – mechanical integrity of the lock is verified for up to three lock cycles.
• Balloon designed to hold 0 to 11ml of saline – 360° coverage around the stomach.
• One end of tubing pre-attached to the balloon, other end connected to REALIZE Injection Port during surgery.
• One-size bands – fit is customized by increasing or decreasing fluid via Injection Port.

REALIZE Band and REALIZE Band-C remains in the low pressure zone throughout the fill volume range.*

Read the Band-C Procedure Guide.

See this product in the Product Catalog.

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* The dividing line indicates the point at which the balloon becomes pressurized causing balloon walls to stretch.¹

REALIZE Bands leverage a clinically proven, high-volume, low-pressure balloon design to reduce the potential for tissue trauma.

With the REALIZE^® Low-pressure Balloon, filling does not cause the material to strain or stretch.  A balloon that is not under strain is able to conform to tissue more easily than a balloon under strain. Lap Band^® System balloon walls strain when filled to less than half of their maximum fill volume.¹

REALIZE Band and REALIZE Band-C remains in the low-pressure zone throughout the fill volume range* while Lap Band^® System products cross into the high-pressure zone early in their adjustment range.¹

REALIZE Bands - Universal size

REALIZE Bands come in one universal length, and have the largest isostatic adjustment range in the market with REALIZE Band-C having a 14% greater adjustment range than the REALIZE Band.^†

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* The dividing line indicates the point at which the balloon becomes pressurized causing balloon walls to stretch.¹
† Based on bench top measurements of stoma areas.¹