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Percutaneous Gastric Drainage as a Treatment for Small Bowel Obstruction after Gastric Bypass

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The authors report the case of a patient who developed small bowel obstruction after laparoscopic gastric bypass. Imaging revealed an obstruction at the enteroenterostomy resulting in dilation of the bypassed stomach and proximal small bowel. The bypassed stomach was percutaneously drained using CT guidance, leading to resolution of the small bowel obstruction. Biliopancreatic limb obstructions can be successfully treated non-operatively after gastric bypass.

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  1. Deptartment of Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Nahid Hamoui MD, Peter F. Crookes MD & Howard S. Kaufman MD

  2. Department of Surgery, 1510 San Pablo Street #514, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA

    Howard S. Kaufman MD

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  1. Nahid Hamoui MD
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Correspondence to Howard S. Kaufman MD.

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Hamoui, N., Crookes, P.F. & Kaufman, H.S. Percutaneous Gastric Drainage as a Treatment for Small Bowel Obstruction after Gastric Bypass. OBES SURG 17, 1411–1412 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-007-9223-y

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