TIF Talk with Dr Dargis

One thing I've noticed is that doctors tend to associate obesity and GERD as if they are comorbidities. Though there are a high number of patients who are both obese and have GERD, I can tell you that being obese is not a good predictive factor for having GERD. Don't have the statistics on this, but after talking to countless patients on the internet with both GERD and LPR, there are a large number of people who ARE NOT OBESE but have GERD or LPR. Simply believing that a patient needs to lose weight and then the GERD will go away is a false assumption.

Is TIF procedure reversible ?

three weeks ago i had a HH repair and CTiF procedure concurrently. The hernia repair went well but during the TIF one of the surgeon's sutures punctured a blood vessel in my stomach, unknown to anyone. I was kept overnight as all TIF patients are and that ended up saving my life. I received 4 doses of heparin to prevent clots which apparently only worsened my internal bleeding. I collapsed the following afternoon after many instances of melena and was rushed back into an endoscopy where they found the bleed. The surgeon was unable to reach the vessel so he sprayed it with a coagulant powder and other chemical. I also required a blood transfusion and a 4 day stay in ICU. I am slowly on the mend now, which we are very thankful for. Could you tell me, how common is this type of incident? thank you