Gastric Bypass complications from leaks Posted: 02-28-04 10:37am
Background:
our 20 yrs daughter had gastric bypass
surgery on feb. 13th in mpls. She was
released on monday the 16th, and we
brought to our home in a nearby state to
recuperate.
On tuesday the 17th she was in great pain
and nausious. We took her to our local
er, who checked her vitals (they were ok)
and gave her meds for the nausiousness.
On thursday she was rushed to reginal
hopsital in extreme-critical condition;
kidneys complete failure, both lungs
colapsed, liver in sever distress, bowl in
shock, and septic....She had three leeks
from the surgery.
They gave her 50/50 odds to survive
emergency surgery (6 hours) which she made
it through, and now they give her 75/25
odds to make the next 72 hours (of which
we are half way through).
The surgeon that performed the emergency
surgery (in our home state..Not the
original surgeon) indicted that the first
surgeon apparently performed the procedure
in a fashion that one section was placed
in front of the stomach (versus behind),
and the stomach folded over causing
certain points to have blood flow cut-off
and subsquently dying and creating three
leeks.
Questions:
1. Is this situaiton something that this
forum has heard of before, and is it
common?
2. The second surgeon performed a
follow-up procedure two days after his
first procedure whereby he injected a
chemical followed with xray/catscan to
check for leeks....The first surgeon did
not perform this follow-up. Is the
follow-up proceddure, to look for leeks,
standard procedure (and he failed to do
it)?
Thanks for any input.
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Jaydensmommy
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Posted: 03-03-04 11:13am
I am sorry I cannot be much help in this
case. But oh my gosh how is she?!!! I
will keep her and your family in my
prayers.
~sara~
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KittenonaCloud
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Joined: 22 Oct 2003 Posts: 13 Location: st cloud, minnesota
to Sscofield Posted: 03-03-04 16:02pm
I had gastric bypass over 5 yrs ago. They
did do the upper gastro graphy ( where you
swallow glass of stuff so your stomach
shows on x-ray) to check for leaks after
my surgery. I think that is standard
procedure after gastric surgery. Hope
everything turns out ok!
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rican_kitty
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Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 1 Location: New York
Re: Gastric Bypass Complication(20 Yr Daughter);need Input Posted: 08-05-04 09:31am
There is a book on the gastric bypass
surgery that basically explains and
answers all of the questions one might
have about this procedure.The information
on this book is as follows.
Gastric bypass surgery
author: mary p.Mcgowan,m.D.; with jo
mcgowan chopra
i really hope that this book is helpful
and that your daughter is ok.
