1 in 50 Gastric Bypass Patients Die Within 1 Month, is This True?
March 31, 2011
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This statistic is scary, if it's true, and please explain why. According to one surgeon, he says he has a 1 in 300 death rate, but that's during surgery.
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Having a bowel movement after bariatric surgery may take some time and it is different for everyone. Most of the time bariatric patients are on an all protein shake diet afterwards and are getting very little fiber in their diets. I recommend to all my patients postoperatively and...
Obama's new healthcare plan prevents insurance companies from excluding pre-existing conditions. It should not affect your ability to get insurance because you will actually become healthier after weight loss surgery and decrease your chances of developing many medical problems.
At this point, it is perfectly safe for you to have any kind of bariatric surgery. It is safe to do the procedure 6 to 8 weeks after a C-section, but the longer that you wait after any kind of surgery the scar tissue that is left behind from the previous surgery becomes easier to deal with...