Pyloroplasty—Adult Side Effects and Warnings

Possible Complications

Complications are rare, but no procedure is completely free of risk. If you are planning to have pyloroplasty, your doctor will review a list of possible complications, which may include:

• Bleeding
• Infection
• Damage to intestines
• Hernia formation at the incision site
• Chronic diarrhea

Factors that may increase the risk of complications include:

• Bleeding disorder
• Advanced age
• Prior surgeries in the abdomen
• Obesity, malnutrition, or dehydration
• Smoking
• Cardiac or respiratory disease

Call Your Doctor

After you leave the hospital, contact your doctor if any of the following occurs:

• Signs of infection, including fever and chills
• Redness, swelling, increasing pain, excessive bleeding or any discharge from the incision site
• Nausea and/or vomiting that you cannot control with the medicines you were given after surgery, or which persist for more than two days after discharge from the hospital
• Pain that you cannot control with the medicines you were given
• Cough, shortness of breath, or chest pain
• Severe abdominal pain or vomiting blood
• Dark-colored, tarry stools or blood in the stool

In case of an emergency, CALL 911.