Anyone had good results from lap-band with plication?

Hi,

Has anyone had a lap-band revision to Lab-Band with plication?  I was wondering if anyone has had any success with this procedure.  I know that it's pretty new.  My doctor suggested it to me but I'm opting to go with revision to RNY but I'm curious to know how much success people have had with the Lap-Band with plication.

Thanks!

Color me confused but I have never heard of this.  Why do 2 different WLS together?  I could see if you had the plication and he wanted to put a lap band over it for weight gain but to do both right off the bat?  What was his reasoning?  Does he not thing the plication would do the trick alone?  If so, why bother?  What about just having the sleeve done?

I don't think there is much in the way of info on this because it is so new, myself I wouldn't want the plication at all, but that's just me and my thinking. I really think it will be a few years before there is any actual results from this new attempt at WLS.

out of the wls out there (gastric banding, RNY, VSG, DS, plication), plication is the newest.  2 surgeons in the US were involved in the clinical trials, Utah and Florida, which was going on 2 years ago.  to my knowledge it is either or, most plications are revisions from gastric banding (Cottam, MD) but I have never heard of doing both together, actually that concept doesn't make sense to me.  good luck on your search

I haven't seen many posts regarding the band with the plication, but I"ve seen the complications and lack of weight loss have several patients posting on here and plicationtalk.com seeking revisions to the VSG or RNY because of the lack of restriction, and or slow weight loss that was promised as the "sleeve killer" when it first hit the market. A couple of the Mexico surgeons quit pushing it because of the insufficient results, Dr. Watkins stopped performing it for a time due to complications with the pleating of the tissue, and sutures coming lose or perforations.

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