Small Bowel Perforation Leads to Life-Threatening Infection

Case Overview

This case involves a Plaintiff who had surgery to reverse a previous intestinal procedure. A short time after this surgery was performed, a small bowel perforation was identified by doctors. In order to treat the perforation, the Plaintiff underwent a laparoscopic procedure to repair the small bowel perforation. However, despite the fact that doctors claimed to have repaired the perforation, the patient went on to suffer from a serious, life-threatening infection. It is alleged that the original revision surgery to close the perforation wasn’t performed properly.

Questions to the Bariatric Surgery expert and their responses

Do you perform the procedures involved in this case?

I am one of few surgeons in my state performing several kinds of revision surgeries in bariatric surgery.

Have you ever had a patient develop this outcome?

Personally I have never had a leak or perforate either in my routine gastric surgeries or in revisions.

About the expert

This highly qualified expert is an authority in Bariatric Surgery. He completed his surgery residency at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is a member of prestigious national and international associations such as the American Pancreatic Association, the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery and the American Society for Gene and Cell Therapy. This expert is actively involved in research, and has published 43 peer-reviewed journal articles, 8 book chapter contributions, 54 abstract publications and has given 103 conference presentations. He currently serves as Medical Director of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence at UIHC, Professor of Surgery at a major university, and Program Director of the Bariatric Surgery Fellowship Program at a major university affiliated medical center.

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Specialties:

Bariatric Surgery