Migration of mesh into gastric lumen: A rare complication of vertical banded gastroplasty
İlhan Ece, Hüseyin Yılmaz, Mustafa Şahin
Department of General Surgery, Selçuk University Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Turkey
Abstract
The problem of revision of failed vertical banded gastroplasty (VBG) has become a common situation in bariatric surgery. Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) has been recently used to revise failed restrictive procedures. This study presents a patient that is treated with Roux-n-Y gastric bypass because of mesh migration after SG for revision of failed VBG.
Keywords: Vertical banded gastroplasty, revisional surgery, mesh migration
Written informed consent was obtained from patient who participated in this case.
Externally peer-reviewed.
Concept - H.Y.; Design - İ.E.; Supervision - M.Ş.; Funding - M.Ş.; Data Collection and/or Processing - İ.E.; Analysis and/or Interpretation - İ.E.; Literature Review - İ.E., H.Y.; Writer - İ.E., H.Y.; Critical Review - M.Ş.
No conflict of interest was declared by the authors.
The authors declared that this study has received no financial support.