I have a 500cc Pouch
Don't ask me how because I can't tell you but my pouch is 500cc. My surgeon of choice wrote a letter to my insurance company explaining the revision request had nothing to do with weight loss because I have had successful weight loss (I'm a size 12) having loss 71% of my excess. I haven't spoken to him but stopped by his office to get the test results of my barium swallow and they gave me a copy of the letter he wrote to my insurance company. He plans to do a partial wedge gastrectomy to reduce my pouch to 15-20cc's. I'm new on this board. Has anyone heard of this happening before? I burp constantly and have reflex bad. I'm miserable.
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on 6/5/08 2:21 pm - AZ
on 6/5/08 2:21 pm - AZ
I was looking in my coding book and the diagnosis would be Gastric dilation and they do a wedge resection of it. I looked up the cpt code. I don't know what causes it.......Dawn