Dr. Hector Perez has substantial experience in the field of obesity surgery revisions. The second bariatric surgery will be a more complicated procedure because of the healing scar tissue, but Dr. Hector Perez has vast experience in revision and rescue surgeries. Contact Dr. Hector Perez to achieve your optimal weight by undergoing revision surgery.
Why Revise a Surgery
Many bariatric patients want to revise a previous surgery because they've failed to lose the adequate amount of weight they wanted. Most agree that weight loss surgery is successful if a patient lost 50% of their excess weight in a timely manner. If a patient fails to lose the weight, then revisional surgery may be your next step.
Some times patients achieve their optimal weight, but start to regain the weight back. Sometimes this weight regain will be accompanied by the return of type 2 diabetes, hypertension or other co-morbidities.
Revise a Failing Surgery
Other times revisional surgery is needed because a flawed procedure; for example vertical banded gastroplasty has been found to failed in over 50% of patients. When a Lap-Band surgery fails, it can be converted to a gastric bypass or a gastric sleeve. Other surgeries that fail include gastric bypass, where the stomach begins to enlarge after a period of time. Gastric bypass or gastric sleeve with a dilated pouch can be rescued by placing a band to make it smaller. read more...