Omentectomy?? Anyone had this done with WLS?

Vicki PNW
on 12/27/07 1:38 pm

Dr. D didn't remove your omentum during your DS surgery, did he? (If he didn't, at least you didn't lose your momentum.) Not sure that I would have wanted to have mine removed either.

Vicki

DS (lap) with Dr. Clifford Deveney. Cholecystectomy (lap) with Dr. Clifford Deveney 19 months post-op.

Has not weighed myself since 1/2010. Letting my clothes gauge my progress instead.

lowellian
on 12/27/07 11:20 pm - OR

DS on 03/30/07

No, he didn't! This is a really new, experimental thing I think.... My thinking is (just MHO) if the DS works why mess with something we know not much about?

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KRWaters
on 12/27/07 8:02 am - Manteca, CA

DS on 05/19/09

So me

what is the purpose of it to begin with? Is it still needed?

KAREN W.

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(deactivated member)
on 12/27/07 8:04 am - San Jose, CA

DS on 08/05/03

There are clinical trials being conducted of combining omentectomy with other bariatric procedures. I would be very cautious in considering this procedure at this time. I listened to several DS surgeons discuss this in 2004, and they were very dubious, in particular because they were concerned that the omentum has a functional role in preventing adhesions between internal organs and intestines, as well as in compartmentalizing the abdominal structures -- like preventing the spread of infection if there is an intestinal crisis. Perhaps Larra will chime in. Bottom line for me? I wouldn't touch it -- give me a tried and true DS.

PattyL
on 12/27/07 9:59 am

DS on 08/14/03

Reread what Diana said. There's no way at this point in time, I would volunteer for that. There are too many unknowns. The individual in WA who has been doing this for quite a while has a bag of very mixed results. I would volunteer to be someone's 1st DS patient before I would volunteer for this. Honest!

Beth D.
on 12/27/07 2:54 pm - Somewhere, OR

DS on 10/31/08

When I went to my last seminar, they were talking about this being something that was optional. She also said that if you have had previous adobnial surgery, including a hysto, you did not qualify for this. Just my 2 cents.

Ms. Cal Culator
on 12/27/07 3:05 pm - Tuvalu

A short time ago, a plastic surgeon of note said that if anyone offered such a procedure to me, I should run away. Sue

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* Nicole *
on 12/27/07 10:32 pm

DS on 08/15/05

My surgeon was just talking about this at our last meeting. And even he says (being a general surgeon & bariatric surgeon), he finds it too risky and dangerous. That part of the body as others have said has many many many functions and should only be removed if need be, aka cancers and such. Removing it during a WL procedure, he believes is asking for more harm than good.

DS Aug 15th,2005 @ goal, living life and loving it.

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