Yes, the risks go up as the comorbidities go up. The most important ones are advanced age and severe sleep apnea. On the lower end though, there are sugeons with a lower than .5% mortality rate. More along the lines of 0.2%. Beware of physicians who say, "they have never lost someone on the table". That is so rare. They usually die in the ICU. Despite anticoagulation, pulmonary emboli still do happen although very rarely. The single most important variable is the number of laparoscopic RNY procedures your surgeon has performed. There is a steep learning curve and the complications are much higher in the first 200. Every physician should be able to quote his exact numbers of procedures, and each major complication (PE, leak, stricture, coversion to open, death etc.)
I hope this helped
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 DYANN
Lap RNY 1/4/06....
46/ 19.8/23.5 BMI's 167.9 pounds gone forever as of 9/12/07 116.3%to goal
294.4/ 126.5/150
5' 7''
Jupiter, Florida
Dr. Jefferson Vaughan: GBP
Dr. P Duddly Giles: Plastic surgeon TT/BL 03.20.2007
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