Revision and conversion bariatric surgery is performed on patients who have already had previous bariatric surgery and who either due to weight gain, stagnation, or complications related to the initial method require a second or third surgery.
In other words, revision bariatric surgery is a special area of bariatric surgery. It involves intervening on a patient that has previously been operated on due to failure of the bariatric technique that can happen for a number of causes:
- Inadequate bariatric technique for the patient.
- Insufficient or inadequate management of the patient.
- Insufficient weight loss.
- Excessive weight loss.
- Complications arising from the first surgery.
As the number of cases from obesity surgery increases, the number of bariatric revision surgery cases also increases. Revision bariatric surgery has a higher rate of complications than bariatric surgery performed for the first time.
It is well known that an essential factor in bariatric revision surgery is the surgeon’s experience, the number of patients operated per year, and the infrastructure of the center where they treat their patients. Bariatric revision surgery requires highly specialized equipment.
The medical group in OBESITY EL SALVADOR has a vast experience performing revision and conversion surgeries through video laparoscopy, and among the procedures they perform are the following:
- Gastric band removal due to erosion or rejection.
- Gastric band to gastric bypass conversion.
- Gastric band to gastric sleeve conversion.
- Gastric Sleeve to Gastric Bypass Conversion.
- Gastric Sleeve to Duodenal Switch Conversion.
- Gastric Sleeve to SADIS Conversion.
- Readjustment of gastric reservoir size in bypass patients.
- Other types of revision bariatric surgery according to each case.
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