Question:
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What exactly is a "revision" and what determines that a Post-op should get one. Thank you.    — Anna M. (posted on January 17, 2005)

January 17, 2005
A revision is done when the original surgery fails, usually for a 'mechanical' reason, such as a staple-line distruption or a stoma failure. But sometimes a person simply fails to lose appropriatly, so they're revised to a different form of surgery, or have the original surgery 'tightened up', so to speak. (Smaller pouch, greater bypass, silastic band around the stoma, etc.) Many, if not all, patients who had the old JIB (and lived long enough!) have been revised to newer, safer procedures. And, sadly, there are a few people who just don't respond well to WLS AT ALL, and wind up needing their surgery reversed.
   — MsBatt

January 17, 2005
my understanding is that if someone stops losing weight, after a year or so, it might be because the pouch eventually stretches out (which is why some say there is a window of opportunity to lose). so the revision is to make the pouch smaller again, so one can lose more weight. i am not swearing by this, but that's what I have heard.
   — jessicamegan