Fistula anyone?
In 4 weeks I am going to have more of a repair than a revision. I developed a gastro-gastric fistula so in essence, everything grew back together and my pouch is withering away unused. They are repairing the fistula and then making me a new pouch. I'm looking to talk to anyone that has had a fistula repair and revision.
on 8/25/14 1:12 pm
I am 7 yrs post op and have a pretty bad gastrogastric fistula. Along with a blind limb. I go in a 10 days to have it fixed. They are doing a complete gastrectomy. Creating a new pouch with because of the dead tissue will be a lot smaller then removing the blind limb and lengthining my channel. It's ugly. It was a rare complication for rny patients, but they are finding more and more late termers developing this problem.
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