title: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in management of weight regain after failed laparoscopic plication.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Weight regain after bariatric surgery remains a challenging problem with regard to its surgical management.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 30 year-old-female patient with weight regain after failed laparoscopic gastric plication and previous gastric banding was evaluated in a tertiary-care university setting. Her last body mass index was calculated as 40.4kg/m(2). Preoperative ultrasonography revealed cholelithiasis. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy with cholecystectomy was planned as a redo surgery. A floopy and plicated stomach with increased wall thickness of the greater curvature was seen. After adhesiolysis between the plicated part of stomach and the surrounding omental tissues, concomitant laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and cholecystectomy were performed. She was discharged on the 4th post-operative day without any complaint. At the postoperative 3rd month, her body mass index was recorded as 24kg/m(2).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Redo surgery of morbid obesity after failed bariatric surgery is a technically demanding issue. Type of the surgical treatment should be decided by the attending surgeon based on the morphology of the remnant stomach caused by previous operations.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  As a redo surgery after failed laparoscopic gastric plication and gastric banding procedures, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy may be regarded as a safe and feasible approach in experienced hands.
authors: Bezmialem Vakif University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of General Surgery, Vatan Str, 34093 Istanbul, Turkey.
authors: Halil
authors: H
authors: Coskun
authors: Gokhan
authors: G
authors: Cipe
authors: Suleyman
authors: S
authors: Bozkurt
authors: Huseyin Kazim
authors: HK
authors: Bektasoglu
authors: Mustafa
authors: M
authors: Hasbahceci
authors: Mahmut
authors: M
authors: Muslumanoglu
keywords: Bariatric surgery; Gastric plication; Sleeve gastrectomy; Weight regain
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