News News Blog: Gastric Band Surgery

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A woman has died following complications after gastric band surgery</td></tr>
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COMPLICATIONS after gastric band surgery saw Joanne Merchant drop from 36.5-stone to just 8 stone, and then die.</div>
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A mourning husband has revealed how his 36.5 stone wife lost her life after having a gastric band fitted. </div>
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Heartbroken Aijaz (AJ) has spoken of his heartbreak after she died weighing just 8 stone when a procedure to correct the surgery went horrifically wrong.</div>
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Joanne Merchant weighed nearly 37 stone when doctors warned her she was living on borrowed time and needed to lose weight urgently.</div>
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They recommended she have a gastric band fitted - which she did in March 1999. And, for a time, it was successful and she shed 28 stone and felt fabulous. </div>
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Speaking about his wife, Joanne's widower said said: "For me, weight is superficial – I always saw beyond that. Her losing weight didn't make me love her any more.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joanne and Aijaz were the happiest of couples with two young children</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joanne suffered complications after surgery and was hospitalised</td></tr>
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            She had lost most of her mobility...couldn't even walk to bed        </div>
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</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description">"But she looked amazing and it was just so nice to see how happy she felt in herself.</section><section class="text-description">"We'd jump in the car and go to theme parks and the beach."</section><section class="text-description">But in June 2008 the mother-of-two noticed a bulge sticking out of her chest where the gastric band's port had fidgeted up towards her neck and needed to be readjusted.</section><section class="text-description">Just a month later she had a sleeve gastrectomy at St George's Hospital in Tooting, South London, where part of her stomach was permanently removed.</section><section class="text-description">Joanne became so ill she had to be fed through a tube - and over the years, she caught infections, never regaining her full health.</section><section class="text-description">Speaking about her various medical issues, including having to wear a colostomy bag, AJ said: "Jo was not her old self. She had lost most of her mobility. And I had to empty out her bag five or six times a night. She couldn't even walk to bed and had to sleep on the sofa.</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</section><section class="text-description">"We didn't wallow though – I used to say to her 'there's always someone worse off than us,' and she'd smile. We felt so lucky to still have each other."</section><section class="text-description">Unfortunately, it was this procedure that triggered a series of medical problems leading to blockages forming in her stomach. </section><section class="text-description">By March 2009 she was in a coma and while she came out of this, she never fully recovered. </section><section class="text-description">When Joanne started coughing up blood in August 2012, a scan showed she had a hole in her lung. After that, she was hooked up to a ventilator at Southampton General Hospital, where she was bed-bound for the rest of the year – away from her family. </section><section class="text-description">In December 2012 she suffered a cardiac arrest and died aged 46 in January 2013.</section><section class="text-description">Later that year a coroner returned a narrative verdict and said she died "due to complications associated with sleeve gastrestomy and gastric bypass undergone in London in 2008".</section><section class="text-description">Her family have now been awarded £182,000 from St George's NHS Trust, thanks to help from BL Claims Solicitors.</section><section class="text-description">AJ said: "In my view, if Jo had not had that operation, she would be with us today.</section><section class="text-description">"The children would still have their mother and I would still be sharing my life with my beloved wife."</section>

Gastric band DEATH: Thirty six stone woman DIES after NHS weight-loss surgery complication

A woman has died following complications after gastric band surgery COMPLICATIONS after gastric band surgery saw Joanne Merchant ...

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