Tummy Tuck: Prices, Photos, Reviews, Info, Q&A

Colon resection surgery is often frought with problems such as wound infections. You would be much better of getting your colon surgery done and the after you recover doing the surgery tummy tuck.

Surgery tummy tuck belly button

This would just be a safer way to proceed. (Scott Tucker, MD, Winston Salem Plastic Surgeon)

I’m sure your general/colon surgeon would be totally against this!

Borders on malpractice and poor surgical theory of appropriate care. (Darryl J. Blinski, MD, Miami Plastic Surgeon)

Surgery tummy tuck in combination with other procedures

Surgery tummy tuck operation

While performing tummy tucks with hysterectomy or laparascopic cholecystectomy are relatively common, I am not aware of the combination of surgery tummy tuck and colon resection being performed with any frequency. There is similar controversy with tummy tuck following delivery or c-section. (Otto Joseph Placik, MD, Chicago Plastic Surgeon)

I only combine surgery tummy tuck with clean abdominal surgery – such as hernia repairs or hysterectomies. dont do it. (William B. Rosenblatt, MD, New York Plastic Surgeon)

It is sometimes beneficial to perform a surgery tummy tuck at the time of other surgery (eg hysterectomy), but this always increases the chance of problems to a degree. The chnace of having a wound contamination with a colon resection would be high enough that most plastic surgeons would be unwilling to assume the risk. (John Whitt, MD, Louisville Plastic Surgeon)

Surgery tummy tuck scar

Although colon surgery these days is very safe there is the possibility of infection. In a procedure that is inherently clean I would not consider doing a tummy tuck at the same time, let alone liposuction.

I would wait until you are fully healed and then have the cosmetic surgery, that’s a much, much safer way to go. An infection from the colon with the open planes of dissection from a surgery tummy tuck or liposuction could be devastating! (Steven Schuster, MD, Boca Raton Plastic Surgeon)

The two surgerries could certainly be done together, however I believe that it is a bad idea for several reasons. Firstly, the bowel is considered contaminated with bacteria, and combining a contaminated procedure (bowel resection) with a clean procedure (surgery tummy tuck) increases the risk of wound infection.

Secondly, tightening the abdominal muscles at the same time may increase your risk of atelectasis (lung collapse). Finally, the increased duration of the procedure may in itself increase the risk of complications such as hypothermia. You didn’t mention wether you were on steroids for the Crohn’s – if so , this may further complicate the picture. I would rather perform the procedure in a staged fashion, and thus minimize your risk. (Wilfred Brown, MD, Fairfield Plastic Surgeon)