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Surgeon Testimonial Bengt F. Pehrsson M.D. Born in Stockholm, Sweden, Dr. Bengt Pehrsson received his medical degree at the University of Munich in West Germany. Upon completion of his general medical training, he was accepted to the residency program at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He did his training primarily at what was then known at Charity Hospital in the heart of the city. After his 5 years of general residency he continued with his education receiving an additional year of training in Colon/Rectal surgery as a Fellow at the Alton Ochsner Foundation in New Orleans. A member of the Boards of both General Surgery and Colon/Rectal Surgery, he began practicing in the San Gabriel Valley in 1982. He maintains active membership in the American College of Surgeons, SAGES, the American Society of Bariatric Surgeons, American Society of Gastroenterology and Society of colon and Rectal Surgeons. With his extensive training and experiences in general and colon/rectal surgery, he became an early advocate of Bariatric surgery, specifically with Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass. Performing these procedures since 1991, they were initially all preformed as open surgical cases but now they are done almost exclusively laparoscopic. With his vast training and year of experience in this procedure he is the only surgeon in the San Gabriel Valley performing laparoscopic revisions of Bariatric surgery. During the past 14 years he has traveled extensively on the West Coast speaking to groups about Bariatric surgery and obesity. An early advocate for weight loss surgeries, he is the Medical Director of the Bariatric Surgery Program at Methodist Hospital in Arcadia, California. An avid fisherman, he and his wife Denise reside in the San Gabriel Valley. They have two children, both currently attending University. Member Interests
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Christina_Kaplan Gastric Bypass Complications
Oh no!!!! I think I think I'm starting with complications. I called my doctor because I had a lot of nausea and I wasn't dumping. He asked me to go and see him. He sent me for a blood test, everything was normal, so he sent me to another upper endoscopy. As I understood the passage between my esophagus and my pouch is too tight and the solid food can't go through, that is why I'm having nausea, so they need to get in and open it with the endoscope.  I'm not vomiting or anything so I think that the food does go through, but hardly. so they programed it for Wednesday 18th I'm not scared or anything, but I was feeling so good. Chris 1 Comment(s)
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Love, Michele