Guest guest Posted July 18, 2003 Report Share Posted July 18, 2003 ceep, I know that my wife's surgeon (Dr. Noel at HUP) does that for some super morbidly obese patients. A fellow HUP postie of mine was 711 pounds at the time of his surgery 4/17/02. Dr. performed a VBG on him at that time (to minimize the time he'd be under) with the revision to RNY to be done at a future date. The trouble is that Dr. won't do the RNY revision until he stops losing weight from the VBG and the last I had heard, he was down over 240 pounds in the last 15 months. JR Re: Digest Number 2417 | I think , some of the ds guys do it this way for the super morbidly | heavy folks. It may be safer actually perhaps... than to keep a very heavy person | with breathing problems under anesthesia for longer. The congressman has now | lost almost 100 pounds and it sounds as tho his doc thinks he is ready for a | more intense surgery. You know, each person, like each doc has their own way of | making a plain old square pan yellow cake. | love, | ceep | | In a message dated 7/17/03 7:14:14 PM, Graduate-OSSG writes: | | << Re: Federal Congressman has gastric bypass in two parts | | Why would anyone opt to go under the knife twice for a procedure that can be | done all in one surgery?? Well, I certainly wish him well---although | wouldn't it be safer to go under anesthesia once rather than have to go | under twice?? | | :-) | >> | | | Homepage: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Graduate-OSSG | | Unsubscribe: mailto:Graduate-OSSG-unsubscribe | | | | | Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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