RISKS OF BARIATRIC SURGERY
			This is a major operation that carries with it significant risks. Included among these risks, which will occur with a small but unavoidable incidence, are: inadequate weight loss serious wound complications such as infections or wound breakdown bleeding severe enough to require transfusion serious infections serious respiratory complications which may require extended stays on a ventilator injury to the spleen or gallbladder possibly necessitating its removal injury to the liver, common bile duct, or intestines necessitating its repair leakage form the stomach or intestine which may require re-operation blood clots in the legs or lungs side effects serious enough to dangerously interfere with your ability to eat enough need for re-operation long-term metabolic complications of the procedure (vitamin deficiencies) ulcers or strictures at the reconnection between the stomach pouch and intestine hernias at the incision sites conversion to an open procedure requiring a large midline incision Stroke, heart attack, and/or death