After the death of Wadih Ibn George WasoufAfter the repercussions of gastric sleeve surgery, learn about the risks and complications of gastric sleeve operations and the surgeons’ comment on the cause of death following complications of sleeve gastrectomy, which was supposed to be a simple operation, but the surgery has caused the death of young Wadih, and the news of his death arrived a few hours after the announcement. More than a week ago, despite the announcement of the success of his timed operation, Wadih underwent internal bleeding that took his life..
Son of George Wassuf
For his part, Dr. Suleiman Mohamed Suleiman, professor and head of the department of obesity oncology and surgery at Air Specialized Hospital, said one of the problems is the gastric sleeve, through which 85 percent of the stomach is removed and 15% of remains, is the occurrence of less than 1% of the gastric juice leakage of the proteasome membrane. Blood poisoning occurs and can lead to serious complications if not detected early and treated immediately, because the part remainder of the stomach is closed with surgical staplers.
George Wassouf mourned his son
He pointed out that the leak occurs in the upper stomach area between the esophagus and the upper stomach, and often there is a leak from this area.
He said that the other complications that occur with gastric sleeve operations are the occurrence of bleeding after sleeve operations, where bleeding also occurs at a rate of 1% and leads to decreased blood circulation due to the bleeding if it is undetected and treated quickly, and can lead to death, adding that bleeding operations can be avoided. In gastric sleeve operations in more than one way, taking an additional strengthening implant after removing part of the stomach, together to staplers or supporting it with a part of the abdominal tissue to strengthen the wound site and reduce the incidence of bleeding by a large percentage, in order to prevent leakage and bleeding together, because they are among the most dangerous complications after sleeve gastrectomy operations , but adopting modern methods, the vast majority of complications of g sleeve operations astrica can be avoided, because so far thousands of operations have been performed worldwide without these complications occurring, adopting preventive and modern measures to significantly reduce these complications.
He explained that there is another reason for the bleeding, which is that during sleeve gastrectomy, it can lead to a small wound in the spleen without the surgeon knowing, which leads to bleeding after sleeve gastrectomy, and if not is discovered early, it can lead to death. .
