Advances in clinical and experimental medicine : official organ Wroclaw Medical University | 2019
Gastric band migration to gastrointestinal lumen and possibilities of its surgical treatment.
Abstract
BACKGROUND\nDue to numerous late complications after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB), leading to band removal, a significant decrease of its application has been observed.\n\n\nOBJECTIVES\nThe objective of this study was to present complications after LAGB in our own material.\n\n\nMATERIAL AND METHODS\nThe study included 152 obese patients who underwent LAGB between 2005 and 2012. The group of women consisted of 91 patients (60%) with the following preoperative parameters: average body mass index (BMI) 42 ±3.66 kg/m2 and average body mass 122 ±12.8 kg. The group of men included 61 patients (40%) with a preoperative average BMI 43 ±3.81 kg/m2 and average body mass 125 ±13.02 kg. The average age of women was 35.02 ±11.6 years and of men 36.18 ±10.5 years.\n\n\nRESULTS\nAmong 152 patients after LAGB due to morbid obesity, in 7 (4.6%) migration of the band to the stomach lumen was observed, in 4 port wound purulence occurred, in 3 stomach mucosa ulceration was diagnosed in the band pressure area, 3 reported heartburn and hyperacidity, and 4 suffered from emesis. In all aforementioned patients, body mass loss stopped and they reported lack of restriction after last band regulation.\n\n\nCONCLUSIONS\nSurgical or endoscopic treatment in patients with a migrated band is an individual matter depending on the type and size of band dislocation, its clinical symptoms and the general state of the patient, but also on the experience of the operating team and the quality of the equipment.