Mark Harvey · CBC News · Posted: Mar 05, 2014 5:00 AM EST | Last Updated: March 8, 2014 Medical tourism controls needed, surgeon says 11 years ago 2:19 Alberta woman struggles after stomach surgery ...

If the stomach isn’t empty, people can end up regurgitating food from the stomach and then inhaling it into the lungs. Normally, aspiration occurs in one in 3,000 to one in 5,000 procedures.

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With no scars, there are cosmetic advantages, too. Gomez had considered a gastric bypass operation, a more complex kind of stomach stapling, but worried about risks from that surgery.