A Warning of the Complications of Gastric Bypass Surgery
by Dave
Lavinsky
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The more involved and more popular combination-procedure gastric bypass
surgery involves stapling the stomach to make it smaller and reattaching
the small intestine to bypass a portion responsible for the majority of
calorie and nutrient absorption.
Gastric bypass surgery is only available to the morbidly obese (more
than 100 pounds overweight) who have been obese for more than 5 years and
shown a serious effort to lose their excess weight through not surgical
methods such as diet and exercise.
Surgery in any form is risk-inherent and gastric bypass surgery can
result in complications. Complications of gastric bypass surgery
include infection, leaking of the stomach resulting from a failed staple,
respiratory problems, and hernias. The most serious of these is a
gastrointestinal leak that happens in 1 out of 20 cases. The
resulting infection, if not caught quickly and treated accurately, can be
fatal.
Complications of gastric bypass surgery rarely result in death but the
death rate hovers around 1.9%. When considering this, remember that
gastric bypass surgery patients are already in a very unhealthy state and
their bodies are not in a condition to fight off serious infections that
do sometimes occur even in routine surgery.
The risk of complications of gastric bypass surgery must be compared to
the risks of living morbidly obese, which is a deadly condition that will
eventually result in severe disabilities and early death.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gastric Bypass Surgery provides comprehensive information on
procedure, recovery, cost and complications relating to standard,
laparoscopic and mini surgeries. For more information go to Gastric Bypass
Surgery and/or visit its sister site at Bariatric Surgery Web
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