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“Orphaned” Stomach—An Infrequent Complication of Gastric Bypass Revision

While generally safe, bariatric operations have a variety of possible complications. We present an uncommon complication after gastric bypass revision, namely the creation of an “orphaned” segment of remnant stomach that was left inadvertently in discontinuity, leading to recurrent intra-abdominal a...

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Autores principales: Varvoglis, Dimitrios N., Sanchez-Casalongue, Manuel, Baron, Todd H., Farrell, Timothy M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9782235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36556106
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11247487
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author Varvoglis, Dimitrios N.
Sanchez-Casalongue, Manuel
Baron, Todd H.
Farrell, Timothy M.
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description While generally safe, bariatric operations have a variety of possible complications. We present an uncommon complication after gastric bypass revision, namely the creation of an “orphaned” segment of remnant stomach that was left inadvertently in discontinuity, leading to recurrent intra-abdominal abscesses. Sinogram ultimately proved the diagnosis, and the issue was successfully treated using a combination of surgical and endoscopic methods to control the abscess and to allow internal drainage.
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spelling pubmed-97822352022-12-24 “Orphaned” Stomach—An Infrequent Complication of Gastric Bypass Revision Varvoglis, Dimitrios N. Sanchez-Casalongue, Manuel Baron, Todd H. Farrell, Timothy M. J Clin Med Case Report While generally safe, bariatric operations have a variety of possible complications. We present an uncommon complication after gastric bypass revision, namely the creation of an “orphaned” segment of remnant stomach that was left inadvertently in discontinuity, leading to recurrent intra-abdominal abscesses. Sinogram ultimately proved the diagnosis, and the issue was successfully treated using a combination of surgical and endoscopic methods to control the abscess and to allow internal drainage. MDPI 2022-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9782235/ /pubmed/36556106 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11247487 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Varvoglis, Dimitrios N.
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“Orphaned” Stomach—An Infrequent Complication of Gastric Bypass Revision
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title_sort “orphaned” stomach—an infrequent complication of gastric bypass revision
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9782235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36556106
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11247487
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