Sometimes patients who undergo bariatric surgery lose weight, but they do not lose much or they lose it slowly. Revision Procedures to Improve Initial Weight Loss Leaking staple lines, which can also cause abdominal and back pain pelvic pressure, hiccups, fever and a rapid heart rate.The formation of an opening between the stomach pouch and the bypassed stomach that causes abdominal pain, fever and a rapid heart rate.Other problems can also occur, with the revision procedure focusing on addressing those issues and preventing further problems from occurring. The Lap Band procedure has the highest rate of revision, caused by a slipping of the band, which can lead to nausea and vomited, or the destruction of stomach tissue. In other cases, a patient may experience good weight loss but a complication following surgery occurs.
Revision Procedures to Problems with Initial Surgery In these cases, we evaluate performing revision surgery to further reduce caloric intake and/or caloric absorption to jump start further weight loss. This is frustrating, especially given the nature of the procedure. Failure following initial surgery is defined as achieved or maintaining less than 50% of excess weight loss over 18 to 24 months following the initial procedure. The most common reason for revisional bariatric surgery is inadequate weight loss. Revision Procedures to Address Failure of Initial Surgery
BARIATRIC REVISIONS SERIES
This evaluation typically involves an upper GI series to check the anatomy of your stomach or intestines and a nutritional assessment to review your eating habits and lifestyle. Our staff will carefully evaluate you before considering revision bariatric surgery. In such cases, we consider revision bariatric surgery that either alters the initial weight loss procedure or completely changes that initial procedure into a different type of weight loss procedure.Įvery surgical revision is tailed to the needs of the patient. Even though most bariatric surgeries are successful and patients are satisfied with the results, sometimes the surgery doesn’t fully succeed.
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