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Failure of Gastric Bypass Following Several Gastrointestinal Hemorrhages

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Gastrointestinal hemorrhage is an infrequent major complication of gastric bypass. We present a 22-year-old morbidly obese man who underwent a laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and had several life-threatening hemorrhages from both the gastric pouch and gastric remnant, associated with an intra-abdominal hemorrhage. The patient underwent two subsequent reoperations, leading eventually to gastrectomy. The possibility to discover all the sources of bleeding after gastric bypass is discussed, and the adoption of a modification of the procedure that allows the investigation of the excluded stomach is suggested.

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  1. Fondazione Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli e Regina Elena IRCCS, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Enrico Mozzi, Ezio Lattuada, Marco Antonio Zappa, Ilaria Antonini, Francesco Andreoli, Sara Badiali & Giancarlo Roviaro

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    Enrico Mozzi

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Mozzi, E., Lattuada, E., Zappa, M.A. et al. Failure of Gastric Bypass Following Several Gastrointestinal Hemorrhages. OBES SURG 20, 523–525 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-008-9629-1

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